Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Intel’s Greg Clifton
Greg Clifton Director, DOD & Intelligence, Intel Greg Clifton’s team works with the customers and ecosystem partners to understand how new technology and offerings will positively impact the mission and then matching technology and solutions to mission challenges. “We are focused on being a mission partner, not just a silicon provider,” he said. During Clifton’s
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: LMI’s Robert Lech
Robert Lech Vice President, Sector Lead, Defense market, LMI Under Robert Lech’s leadership, LMI’s defense and space market has experienced exponential revenue growth and client delivery excellence, winning 100% of its recompetes. Over the past three years, LMI deliberately and boldly transformed growth by reorganizing the company around a matrix model, prioritizing LMI’s core capabilities
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Peraton’s Jeff Bohling
Jeff Bohling President, Defense Solutions Sector, Peraton Jeff Bohling has full responsibility for the Defense Solutions sector’s strategy development and execution, program performance and growth objectives. The sector supports the mission to keep the U.S. and citizens safe by delivering solutions to improve software, systems engineering, IT, training and logistics, and fleet management to key
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Anduril Industries’ Scott Goldstein
Scott Goldstein Head of Advanced Missions, Anduril Industries Scott Goldstein started with Anduril in March and immediately stood up the Advanced Missions organization. The team focuses on next-generation capabilities across the company, including its Lattice software platform, artificial intelligence, mission autonomy, tactical air systems, unmanned aerial systems, counterdrone technology, base defense and border security. “As
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Maximus’ Joe Kehoe
Joe Kehoe Vice President, DOD Practice Leader, Maximus In the year-plus that Joe Kehoe has served as the Defense Department business leader for Maximus, his team has seen 20% year-over-year growth in key areas such as digital transformation and innovation, cybersecurity, IT modernization, application development and advanced analytics. His team’s success comes from unrelenting focus
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Amentum’s Fog Hahn
Ronald “Fog” Hahn Executive Vice President, Strategic Growth Organization, Amentum Since launching Amentum as an independent company in early 2020, Ronald “Fog” Hahn has been focused on driving the company’s growth. By infusing new technologies into existing work, adding to Amentum’s indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract vehicles, building the brand and transforming the business through
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Northrop Grumman’s Mary D. Petryszyn
Mary D. Petryszyn Corporate Vice President, President, Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Sector Mary Petryszyn has built Northrop Grumman’s newest sector, Defense Systems, into a multibillion-dollar business focused on growth and future success for her customers. Her broad portfolio includes missiles and tactical weapons, all-domain command and control architecture, integrated battle command systems, and sustainment and
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Leidos’ Gerry Fasano
Gerry Fasano President, Defense Group, Leidos Leidos impressed industry insiders with its recent win of the coveted $7.7 billion Next Generation Enterprise Network Service Management, Integration and Transport contract. The company’s Defense Group, headed by Gerry Fasano, led the charge and wrestled the Navy’s biggest IT services contract away from a two-decade incumbent. The award
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Noblis’ Glenn Hickok
Glenn Hickok Vice President, Noblis Defense Mission Area/President, Noblis MSD and Mikros Technologies Under Glenn Hickok’s leadership, Noblis’ defense programs have grown from less than $30 million to over $180 million in just under a year. This growth stems from both organic activity and the acquisition of McKean Defense, which the company recently rebranded as Noblis
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: ASRC Federal’s Sam Swenson
Sam Swenson Senior Vice President, Defense & Intel Operating Group, ASRC Federal Under Sam Swenson’s leadership, ASRC Federal’s defense and intel operating group has continued to achieve significant strategic priorities for the organization and its customers, with 31% year-over-year growth for the division. His group recently won a $360 million Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s Kirtland
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Microsoft’s Angela Heise
Angela Heise Corporate Vice President, Defense & Intelligence, Microsoft Angela Heise became Microsoft’s corporate vice president of defense and intelligence in June 2021, bringing with her more than 20 years of experience. “Joining a company with a culture that embraces a growth mindset and is customer obsessed energizes me and allows me to put all
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Jacobs’ Bruce Crawford
Bruce Crawford Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, Jacobs Retired Army Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford joined Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions leadership team in November 2020, bringing with him more than 34 years of leadership, executive management, national security, enterprise IT and cybersecurity experience. Crawford’s previous roles include Army’s chief information officer/deputy chief of staff G6; senior Army
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Akima’s Juvy McCarthy
Juvy McCarthy President, Technology Solutions and Products Group, Akima As president of the Technology Solutions & Products Group at Akima, an Alaska Native Corporation, Juvy McCarthy has been instrumental in building a sustainable business for the company’s more than 14,000 Iñupiat shareholders. When she began at one of Akima’s subsidiaries nearly 18 years ago, McCarthy
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Parsons’ Robert Miller
Robert Miller Executive Vice President, Defense and Intelligence, Parsons Corp. Robert Miller joined Parsons Corp. in 2017, bringing 20 years of professional and military experience with more than half concentrated in growth and strategy. He’s a skilled strategist focused on innovative leadership, vision and sound financial drivers. As executive vice president of defense and intelligence
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Boeing’s Heidi Grant
Heidi Grant Vice President, Business Development, Boeing Heidi Grant has deep global expertise in defense space and security, including a two-decade track record as a high-impact leader in global defense sales and services. She is an expert in Defense Foreign Military Sales, technology transfer and full spectrum support to include training, maintenance and sustainment for
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: AWS’ Liz Martin
Liz Martin Director, Department of Defense, Amazon Web Services Since assuming her role leading the Defense Department business for Amazon Web Services last year, Liz Martin has helped customers in the armed forces and related agencies enhance security, innovate faster, become more agile and lower costs. Earlier this year, Martin helped announce a new AWS
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Sigma Defense Systems’ Matt Jones
Matt Jones CEO, Sigma Defense Systems Since partnering with Sagewind Capital, and joining Sigma Defense in January 2021, Matt Jones and the Sigma team have quietly positioned the company for the next phase of growth in 2022 and already have several large prime contract wins to validate their strategy. They continue to build upon relationships
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: DOD’s Harry Wingo
Harry Wingo Assistant Professor, National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace, Defense Department Applying his over 25 years of government and corporate leadership experience, including 15 years focused on information and communications technology law and policy, Harry Wingo is a thought leader in the strategic use of emerging technology in cyberspace. Currently, he leads
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Raytheon Technologies’ David Appel
In 2021, David Appel led a talented team and strategy across the company’s C2 Digital Solutions mission area within Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s Space & C2 product line that has delivered consistent predictable growth and execution that meets customers’ challenges in a rapidly changing market. “We are establishing innovative solutions that integrate our mission understanding
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: CACI’s Steve Tolbert
Steve Tolbert has served as CEO of a fast-growing regional engineering firm, as a senior vice president at Perspecta and as a leader at SRA helping provide advanced technology solutions to federal, state and local agencies. Now, he is leading a group at CACI that provides critical business solutions to the Defense Department through advanced
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: GDIT’s Leigh Palmer
In the past year, Leigh Palmer led a team that delivered major wins, expanded critical services to Defense Department customers and cared for its own by focusing on empathy, flexibility and accessibility. In the fourth quarter of 2020, Palmer’s team secured the $4.4 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solution contract to facilitate the largest-ever deployment of
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Accenture Federal Services’ Vince Vlasho
As a Navy veteran and senior business executive using technology and innovation to help transform how the Defense Department delivers its mission and supports its workforce, Vince Vlasho is a man with a record of bringing big ideas and producing industry-leading results. Under his direction, Accenture Federal Services is bringing fresh thinking and new approaches to
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Karen Dahut
After a year of growth supporting some of the Defense Department’s most critical programs, Karen Dahut is especially proud of her team’s work around delivering open, connected and resilient solutions to the warfighter. “I’m particularly proud of our work around networking data across the department through both enterprise solutions like Advana and edge solutions like
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021: CGI Federal’s Tim Spadafore
In 2021, Tim Spadafore’s team secured a data transformation project at an intelligence agency that will evolve how it processes its intelligence, military and infrastructure data. This is the single largest award for CGI Federal’s intelligence practice. It’s also the company’s first pivot into the mission space within the intelligence community, Spadafore said. “This win sets
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