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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: DOUG WAGONER
LMI has been busy making deals since Wagoner joined the government defense and consulting firm in 2020. It expanded its presence in the fast-growing space defense industry with the 2022 purchase of Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Synaptech and got a foothold in the public health sector with the 2021 acquisition of Suntiva. In March, LMI announced […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN HELLER
When Heller was named CEO of federal contractor Amentum in March 2022, he had just spent seven years directing growth strategy for Falls Church-based PAE, taking it from a $1.6 billion company to one valued at $2.76 billion. Amentum purchased PAE for $1.9 billion in cash in 2022 and moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: CHARLES ‘CHUCK’ PROW
Prow has been named to Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of top government contracting executives nine out of the 10 years since the list began in 2014. He worked at Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM before becoming president and CEO of Vectrus in 2016. In July 2022, Colorado-based Vectrus merged with Mississippi-based The Vertex Co. […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: STEPHANIE MANGO
In 2021, Mango became president of CGI Federal, the U.S. arm of the Montreal-based IT and professional services consultancy. A University of Virginia graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Mango joined CGI in 2004 when it purchased American Management Systems, her former employer. In 2015, she became a senior vice president, the position she held […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MILE CORRIGAN
In October 2022, Corrigan succeeded Amr ElSawy as the not-for-profit federal contractor‘s chief executive, 21 years after joining Noblis as a computer scientist and software architect and manager. A graduate of Virginia Tech and Georgetown University, she previously was senior vice president of Noblis’ Federal Civilian Solutions (FCS) division. Corrigan’s promotion started a roun[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: WILLIAM J. “BILL” LYNN III
Leonardo DRS went public in November 2022, with Lynn ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq, after the completion of a merger with Israel-based Rada Electronic Industries. Leonardo DRS’ parent company, Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA, retains 80.5% ownership of the $3 billion company. Lynn joined the defense contractor in 2012, after serving as a […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: DAVID CALHOUN
Boeing encountered some issues this spring in producing its 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner planes, due to manufacturing problems, which has contributed to an industrywide shortage of new jets. In a May Bloomberg interview, Calhoun, who heads the world’s fifth largest defense contractor, said that supply chain disruptions to the aerospace industry could continue “for […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: Y. MICHELE KANG
Born in South Korea, Kang moved to the United States as a teen with her family, driven to succeed. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and her master’s degree from the Yale School of Management. An entrepreneur who started companies and bought and invested in others, she has always been focused on […]
Education 2023: ANNE M. KRESS
As president of Virginia’s largest community college — and one of the largest community colleges in the country — Kress oversees faculty, staff and nearly 70,000 internationally diverse students on six campuses near Washington, D.C., including NOVA‘s Medical Education Campus in Springfield. In May, Gov. Glenn Youngkin visited the college’s Alexandria campus to announce a [&he[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: SHAWN PURVIS
Assuming the roles of president and CEO of QinetiQ US in February 2022, Purvis has nearly three decades of experience working in defense, intelligence and cybersecurity. Purvis joined the tech company from Northrop Grumman, where she was most recently enterprise services sector president and a corporate vice president. Before joining Northrop Grumman in 2012, Purvis […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: CAREY A. SMITH
An engineer by training, Smith joined Fortune 1000 defense contractor Parsons in 2016 as a division head and quickly rose to president, CEO and, most recently, chair. A five-time winner of Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award, she helped take Parsons public in 2019 and also led Parsons’ acquisition and integration of a string of companies, including […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REX D. GEVEDEN
Before joining BWXT in 2015 as its chief operating officer, Geveden was an executive at Teledyne Technologies, as well as a chief engineer and associate administrator at NASA, where he ran support contracts for the International Space Station and helped develop next-generation lunar vehicles. In 2017, he became CEO of the Lynchburg-based manufacturer of nuclear […]
