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2026 Virginia Power 50 List: KAREN DAHUT
CEO, GOOGLE PUBLIC SECTOR, RESTON
Virginia Business //March 1, 2026//
2026 Virginia Power 50 List: KAREN DAHUT
CEO, GOOGLE PUBLIC SECTOR, RESTON
Virginia Business //March 1, 2026//
Dahut became CEO of Google Public Sector, a subsidiary focused on government and educational contracting, in 2022. Before joining Google, Dahut led Booz Allen Hamilton’s $4 billion global defense business.
Dahut served in the U.S. Navy for six years, including at the Navy Medical Research Institute in Maryland. As a civilian, she worked at the Logistics Management Institute, a Tysons-based nonprofit federal contractor, before joining Booz Allen.
Dahut has a bachelor’s from Mount St. Mary’s University and a master’s degree from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. She also sits on the board of the Center for a New American Security.
With Accenture Federal Services, Google Public Sector has a Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a Data & Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence and a Federal AI Solution Factory, supporting federal agencies. In October 2025, Fortune 500 defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Public Sector announced their partnership to bring Google’s generative AI tech into Lockheed’s AI Factory, ultimately for national security applications.
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