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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: VECCHIOLLA, TOM
Vecchiolla has led the U.S. arm of U.K.-based security and defense contractor QinetiQ Group since January, taking over for Shawn Purvis, now CEO of Ohio’s Sabel Systems Technology Solutions. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Vecchiolla spent more than two decades in the Navy as an aviator and acquisition professional. He also worked as […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: HELLER, JOHN
Before joining Amentum as CEO in 2022, Heller spent seven years directing growth strategy for Falls Church-based PAE, taking it from $1.6 billion in annual revenue to $2.76 billion. In September 2024, Amentum completed its merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a new systems integration and engineering solutions company […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: IPSEN, LAURA K.
After 25 years in Silicon Valley as an executive for Oracle, Microsoft and Cisco Systems, Ipsen was hired to lead higher ed tech company Ellucian in 2017. With 3,800 employees worldwide, Ellucian has an annual revenue approaching $1 billion and works with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries, serving 20 million students. Ipsen is […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: TRUNDLE, STEPHEN
Trundle has led Tysons-based home security tech company Alarm.com since 2003, coming aboard from its founding parent company, MicroStrategy (now known as Strategy), where he served as chief technology officer. The company sold the spinoff security business to investors in 2009, and Alarm.com, which now has 2,000 employees, went public in 2015. Alarm.com has become […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: TAYLOR, JENNIFER
Since 2020, Taylor has led the Northern Virginia Technology Council, one of the largest regional technology trade associations in the nation. NVTC represents tech industry players ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies to universities and nonprofits. Under Taylor’s leadership, NVTC has seen its membership grow by more than 85% to more than 500 companies. […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: WEDGE, SUSAN
After joining IBM in 2002, Wedge took on roles of increasing responsibility. In 2022, she was tapped to lead IBM Consulting’s U.S. public and federal market, a portfolio worth more than $2.2 billion that supports more than 4,000 U.S.-based consultants. She also has served as IBM’s head of federal operational transformation practice, senior partner of […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: BELL, THOMAS A.
Formerly chairman and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America, Bell became CEO of Fortune 500 defense, aerospace and information technology firm Leidos in 2023. Bell is a two-time recipient of a Wash100 award from Executive Mosaic. Leidos has landed some huge wins under his leadership, including a Transportation Security Administration contract awarded in December 2024 valued […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: SHAPIRO, GARY J.
Lawyer, author and lobbyist Shapiro is the longtime leader of the Consumer Technology Association, a trade organization representing more than 1,200 consumer technology companies. CTA owns and produces CES, the world’s largest consumer technology trade show, which has been held in Las Vegas since 1978. With more than three decades at CTA’s helm, Shapiro has […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: KASTNER, CHRISTOPHER D.
Kastner was tapped in 2022 as CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the nation’s largest military shipbuilder and a Fortune 500 company that owns Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia’s biggest industrial employer. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer for HII, which has 44,000 employees and reported $11.5 billion in fiscal […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: CORRIGAN, MILE
Twenty-one years after joining not-for-profit federal contractor Noblis as a computer scientist, software architect and manager, Corrigan was named president and CEO in 2022. With a bachelor’s in management science and information technology from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Georgetown, Corrigan previously served as Noblis’ executive vice president and before that as senior vice [&hel[...]
Amentum wins $4B Space Force contract
Amentum has been awarded a contract of up to $4 billion from the United States Space Force to provide engineering and cybersecurity services.
BWXT launches subsidiary to deliver commercial nuclear fuel
BWXT launches a subsidiary, BWXT Advanced Fuels, to commercialize advanced nuclear fuel
