Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN

In August 2023, Dean opened the doors to a new, 168,000-square-foot building on his company’s manufacturing campus in Caroline County, completing a five-year, $63 million phase three expansion that created more than 500 jobs in Virginia. It’s just the latest development for Dean, who grew the relatively small business that his grandfather started in 1949 as an electrical construction company to employ more than 5,100 across more than 30 offices worldwide. The company reportedly earned $1.3 billion in 2021 revenue.

Dean became CEO of the privately owned design-build systems integration company in 1997. A North Carolina State University alumnus, Dean was inducted into its Electrical and Computer Engineering Hall of Fame in 2015 and serves on the board of the Washington Airports Task Force.

In recent years, M.C. Dean has received a $250 million Pentagon contract and a $98 million Navy contract to develop security systems, and, in January, a potential $116 million Defense Information Systems Agency contract to provide IT support for the U.S. European Command and Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic. In April 2023, M.C. Dean announced it had acquired building automation systems provider International Energy Conservation Systems.