Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Leidos’ Eric Moore
Eric Moore Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Digital Modernization, Leidos Eric Moore’s biggest recent achievement is establishing Leidos’ digital modernization practices—customer-driven, tech-focused groups accelerating adoption of cloud, cybersecurity, end user experience, application modernization, networks and information advantage (data and AI). This is also happening at a time when speeding the secure adoption
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Empower AI’s Jennifer Sample
Jennifer Sample CTO, Empower AI Jennifer Sample’s biggest achievement has been building the team at Empower AI that developed the company’s AI services framework. This foundational capability includes use cases for AI in federal agencies, pre-built accelerators, models and customized solutions that allow them to adopt and expand their use of AI. “In a short
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Nightwing’s Chris Jones
Chris Jones CTO, Nightwing Chris Jones’ recent biggest achievement was working with the Nightwing team to purchase and integrate the company’s first corporate acquisition as Nightwing, and the first one for the business in over seven years (Roka Security). “Helping to transform the corporate culture from a somewhat static environment to one actively hunting and
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Peraton’s Todd Borkey
Todd Borkey CTO, Peraton Peraton Labs continues to develop exciting new technologies in critical areas of national interest. The company has matured technologies critical to secure communications, resilient networking, cyber defense and generative AI applications. Todd Borkey asserts an exciting period is ahead for Peraton – particularly the labs – where these technologies will provide
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: ManTech’s Mike Uster
Mike Uster CIO, CTO & SVP, ManTech Mike Uster’s biggest recent achievement was operationalizing generative AI across ManTech—launching Ask ManTech, the company’s agentic AI copilot, and deploying Google Gemini to equip thousands of employees with secure, intelligent support. This bold move is transforming ManTech’s culture, driving innovation at scale and streamlining operations. In less than
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Microsoft’s Jason Payne
Jason Payne CTO, US Federal, Microsoft In the past year, Jason Payne helped strengthen Microsoft’s federal AI strategy by co-leading the development of a platform that spans all classification levels. As the main voice for federal customer needs, he drove work on the Azure AI Foundry service, which gives agencies access to OpenAI’s top foundation
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Accenture Federal Services’ Aaron Jackson
Aaron Jackson Senior Managing Director – Technology Lead, Accenture Federal Services Aaron Jackson recently led Accenture Federal Services’ effort to bring its commercially proven assets into the federal space to help agencies reduce costs and boost innovation. The company invests heavily in assets and accelerators that deliver AI-driven speed and agility to its largest commercial
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Agile Defense’s Razwan Raja
Razwan Raja Chief Innovation Officer, Agile Defense Razwan Raja’s biggest recent achievement was launching and maturing Agile Labs, a core innovation hub within Agile Defense. This project helps to leverage AI, data and cloud technology to deliver tailored solutions that drive innovation, efficiency, cost savings, and competitive advantage, to help the company stay at the
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: ICF’s Kyle Tuberson
Kyle Tuberson recently led an initiative to establish an AI operating platform across the ICF enterprise. He brought together business leaders, technologists and domain experts around a shared vision, reshaped the operating model and aligned the right people and resources. The result: a companywide environment where teams can rapidly experiment, innovate and deliver AI-driven solutions
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: ASRC Federal’s Eric Velte
Leveraging three decades of experience in the government contracting space, Eric Velte leads a team of engineers and developers in designing and implementing groundbreaking technology solutions for ASRC Federal’s government customers. Velte’s forward-thinking approach puts ASRC Federal, his team and his customers at the forefront of innovation. For instance, last year Velte’s team provided one
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: HII Mission Technologies’ John Bell
John Bell is responsible for technical excellence and innovation across growth, product and service delivery, and internal research and development. His career spans decades in advanced technology solutions supporting modeling and simulation, networking, information systems, communications and cybersecurity. He started as a software engineer at NASA and later at the Defense Department, developing modeling and
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: MuleSoft at Salesforce’s David Egts
David Egts is focused on connecting government leaders to share success strategies and help them plan for innovations like agentic AI, integration, automation and API-led connectivity. As agencies expand into agentic AI, Egts has been linking government leaders with each other and industry experts worldwide to accelerate results. “David’s leadership in the public sector is
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: Amentum’s Jill Bruning
Jill Bruning CTO, Amentum As the first CTO of Amentum, a $13.9 billion recently launched global public company with roughly 53,000 employees, Jill Bruning’s initial focus has been architecting an enterprise technology strategy and creating a connected technology framework to drive innovation, growth and competitive advantage. In the first 100 days, the company launched its
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025: GDIT’s Michael Cole
Michael Cole CTO, Federal Civilian, GDIT Michael Cole leads a team of technology experts focused on developing solutions for large-scale federal agencies. His team partners with agencies to meet them where they are with their IT systems, navigate evolving requirements and implement advanced technology solutions — all while maintaining a high level of execution. Through
Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2025
In the competitive, evolving world of government contracting, companies must stay ahead by keeping up with technology trends that drive customer solutions. It’s crucial for companies to adapt their solutions and capabilities to align with customer mission needs, ensuring they provide efficient, compliant tools to the government. As technology reshapes both industry and government, the
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