
Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: Lumen Technologies’ Scott Barnett
Scott Barnett Vice President and General Manager, Department of Defense Practice, Lumen Technologies Scott Barnett leads a growing global practice within the Lumen Technologies Public Sector group that provides network connectivity, edge cloud, cybersecurity and collaboration solutions to the Defense Department. His biggest recent accomplishment is helping Lumen win a $1.5 billion contract from the

Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: Airbus’ Cara Sindir
Cara Sindir Chief Operating Officer, Airbus U.S. Space & Defense After spending a decade working for Airbus abroad, Cara Sindir came home in 2019 to launch the revamped U.S. Space & Defense company, merging European technologies with the highest American security requirements to benefit the U.S. warfighter. Sindir’s biggest recent achievement is recruiting a talented

Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: CGI Federal’s Horace Blackman
Horace Blackman Senior Vice President, Defense, Intelligence, and Space Business Unit, CGI Federal Heading CGI Federal’s Defense, Intelligence, and Space Business Unit, Horace Blackman leads a team of professionals who provide mission-critical support for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Space Force and other defense agencies. Blackman leverages his 20 years of federal organization

Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: CSA’s Tim Spadafore
Tim Spadafore Chief Operating Officer, Client Solution Architects Within the first six months at CSA, Tim Spadafore and his team won the company’s first significant task order through their MyNavyHR work. The Training Delivery Services award was worth $36 million and lasted for two years. They retained over 80% of the incumbents. Spadafore also visited

Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: AWS’ Liz Martin
Liz Martin Director of the Department of Defense Business, Amazon Web Services In December 2022, AWS was chosen to support the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. JWCC enables DOD to acquire cloud capabilities and services from cloud service providers, covering all security domains and classification levels from enterprise to tactical edge. The contract allows DOD

Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: Google Public Sector’s Leigh Palmer
Leigh Palmer Vice President, Google Public Sector As vice president of Google Public Sector, Leigh Palmer supported the launch of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted, an air-gapped private cloud solution built on open source standards with flexible scale to meet government customers where they are. GDC Hosted delivers integrated cloud services, including many of Google’s leading

Top DOD Execs to Watch in 2023: Parsons Corp.’s Stephen Finney
Stephen Finney Senior Vice President, D&I Growth, Parsons Corp. Stephen Finney joined Parsons Corp. in June 2018 as a result of the Polaris Alpha acquisition. With over 23 years of specialized experience, he has delivered capabilities in three core areas to the Defense Department and intelligence community. These areas are cyber technology solutions, application development
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