Falls Church-based GDIT names VP for client engagement

Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. has named Kristin Seaver as its vice president of strategic client engagement, the company announced Monday.

Seaver spent more than three decades working for the U.S. Postal Service, including as chief retail and delivery officer, chief information officer and COVID-19 incident commander, as well as in other leadership roles. She retired in September 2021, according to her LinkedIn account.

In her new role, Seaver will be responsible for strengthening client engagement and strategic direction for GDIT’s federal civilian agencies sector.

“Kristin is an accomplished executive with a wealth of experience in all aspects of government operations, technology and logistics,” Jylinda Johnson, GDIT vice president and general manager for government operations, said in a statement. “Her expertise will play a critical role in supporting our customers’ digital transformation goals and mission objectives.”

As chief retail and delivery officer at the postal service, Seaver led operations of more than 450,000 employees at more than 30,000 locations nationally, and was responsible for operations of a delivery fleet of more than 280,000 vehicles serving 160 million daily destinations. As CIO, Seaver led the service’s digital transformation to modernize technologies and also oversaw investment in and development and deployment of technologies to set up services that included Informed Delivery, which gives residential consumers a digital preview of mail.

GDIT is a business unit of Reston-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics Corp., an aerospace and defense company that employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $38.5 billion in revenue in 2021. In March, the contractor was awarded a $4.5 billion contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.