Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Accenture Federal Services’ Vince Vlasho
In 2019 under Vince Vlasho, Accenture’s Defense and Intelligence business expanded the integration of commercial solutions to support clients pursuing digital transformation through multiplatform solutions that enhance efficiency and reliability. This integrated solution model led to several important contract wins, including supporting the Air Force to modernize its payroll, leave-management and core human resources functions.
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: ManTech’s Andy Twomey
In 2019, Andy Twomey helped lead ManTech’s work supporting the development of new sensor technology for manned and unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. For instance, early in the year, ManTech won a contract to provide analysis, research and development support for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division to support Naval Air Systems
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: GDIT’s Leigh Palmer
Leigh Palmer leads the delivery of mission critical services and solutions to the Defense Department and other government customers, taking the helm of the Defense Division following the merger of General Dynamics and CSRA. As part of the integration, Palmer developed a strategy for the organization predicated on agile operations and a culture of innovation,
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Department of the Navy’s James Geurts
In an environment with high expectations for bureaucratic standards and oversight, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition James Geurts redefined and reorganized the research, development and acquisition community to align to mission and to increase its agility. His innovative leadership in 2019 took a multipronged approach on various fronts to drive
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Karen Dahut
The 2018 National Defense Strategy established a new priority: regaining the military’s technological advantage. Over the past year, Karen Dahut’s team has partnered with the Defense Department to advance this priority as evidenced by some of its most significant 2019 milestones. First, Booz Allen won a task order to help the Army equip the digital soldier with the latest
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Defense Intelligence Agency’s Janice Glover-Jones
Since Janice Glover-Jones became chief of equality, diversity and inclusivity in 2019, she has worked to eliminate barriers at the Defense Intelligence Agency. She is the first to suggest conducting year-round, in-depth barrier analysis that will focus on uncovering, examining and removing the obstacles that hinder equal participation at all levels of the workforce. One
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Peraton’s John Coleman
Bringing together complementary technical capabilities from the former Defense & Electronic Warfare and Homeland Security sectors, John Coleman positioned Peraton to address a broader array of growing customer needs in border C4ISR, identity and threat detection and response, data analytics, software development, advanced logistics and systems modernization. Coleman, who serves as president of defense and
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Defense Digital Service’s Katie Olson
Katie Olson learned to design with, not for, users — a core tenant of Defense Digital Service — when launching and running a tech organization in Chicago called the City Tech Collaborative, which reimagines the way cities use technology to manage essential infrastructure and services. “If it doesn’t work for the end user, it doesn’t
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: SOSi’s Frank Helmick
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick joined SOS International LLC in 2012 after a 36-year military career. He now leads its Mission Solutions business, which supports U.S. national and NATO forces, and foreign military sales contractors supporting a variety of diplomatic and defense missions around the world. In 2019, SOSi established a new pipeline of
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Steampunk’s Ruth-Ann Nowakowski
Having spent her entire life in the Washington, D.C., area watching many of her family members serve the country in both the military and civilian sectors, Ruth-Ann Nowakowski jumped at the opportunity to help stand up Steampunk’s Defense Sector business from scratch. Steampunk is a design-led company where human-centricity is a part of its DNA. Its
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: SAP NS2’s Rich Gustafson
Rich Gustafson first joined the defense community when he was just a kid living on military bases with his family. Now a Defense Department executive, he has spent most of his professional career advancing the missions of DOD and the intelligence community through secure technology modernization and transformation. Today, he’s is chief technology officer for
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: DOD’s Katie Arrington
Katie Arrington came to the Defense Department in early 2019 as a change agent and bridge between departmental information security efforts, Congress, industry and academia. In her short tenure, she has been driving the cybersecurity portion of the most significant acquisition reform in DOD through the development and implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Leidos’ Bill Bender
In 2019, Bill Bender took on an increased leadership role at Leidos, when field account and enterprise IDIQ management responsibilities were placed in his organization. Bender was designated as the corporate lead for customer relationship assessments, helping to ensure differentiated services and solutions for Leidos’ federal and commercial customers. Last year was an exciting year
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Deloitte Consulting’s Heather Reilly
Heather Reilly has over 20 years of professional experience and oversees a $1 billion portfolio of work across the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and intelligence sub-sectors, encompassing over 5,700 practitioners. Reilly is one of the firm’s experts on immigration and border security work. In this capacity, she led delivery teams focused on enhancing
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: CACI’s Steve Tolbert
Steve Tolbert leads CACI’s Business Systems group, which provides the Defense Department and intelligence community with enterprisewide business solutions in finance, human capital management, acquisition support and business operations support. Prior to joining CACI, Tolbert served as a senior vice president at Perspecta, and before that, as a senior vice president at SRA. He also previously
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: VT Group’s Sunil Ramchand
“VT Group is making big changes” — a big statement for a company that can trace its 150-year legacy to 1866. That excites Chief Growth Officer Sunil Ramchand, who teamed up with CEO John Hassoun and a cadre of seasoned industry executives in 2018 to transform the Victorian-era shipbuilder into a full lifecycle engineering player
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Alion’s Terri Walker-Spoonhour
As senior vice president of operations, Terri Walker-Spoonhour is responsible for the overall health of Alion’s business portfolio to include program performance, business planning and strategy, measurement, and financial and business growth. She was previously the senior vice president of the Alion Distributed Simulation Group, where she led a team that consistently achieved or exceeded performance
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Perspecta’s Jeff Bohling
In 2019, Jeff Bohling’s team achieved significant growth fueled in large part by a contract to provide cybersecurity operations support to the U.S. Army. Another win under Bohling was the agreement to modernize the U.S. Air Force’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network for transmitting classified information. Additionally, the defense group secured a prime position on
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: CGI’s Tim Spadafore
Building on a 24-plus-year career, Tim Spadafore led TeraThink’s integration of its agile enablement, application development and data analytics capabilities during its merger with CGI earlier this year. His experience and contributions in the federal marketplace led to his return to CGI as vice president of defense and intelligence practice at CGI Federal. “By working
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Air Force’s JJ Snow
AFWERX is an Air Force initiative that thinks beyond just Air Force requirements. This innovative team can be found collaborating with various Defense Department and interagency, academic and industry partners to enable solutions across the full spectrum of government and military operations. “We aren’t a big team, but we work hard to make a big
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: AWS’ Jennifer Chronis
Over the past four years, Jennifer Chronis has led the Defense Department business for Amazon Web Services, which supports customers of all missions and sizes. She previously spent 15 years in the federal IT industry and served for two decades of combined active and reserve duty in the U.S. Army as a logistics officer. Since
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