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PAE aviation division receives $136.5M Air Force contract

Arlington-based PAE Aviation and Technical Services LLC has received a $136.5 million contract to provide aerial target operations and maintenance for the Air Force, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

Under the contract, PAE will conduct lethality testing of major weapons systems and munitions programs at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, with work expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2029. The award is a firm-fixed-price, performance incentive and award-fee contract with cost-reimbursable line items.

PAE Aviation and Technical Services is a division of Falls Church-based government contractor PAE Inc. The company was acquired by Germantown, Maryland-based aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc. in a $1.9 billion deal earlier this year.

 

Dollar Tree names new CIO amid C-suite shift

Chesapeake-based Fortune 500 discount retailer Dollar Tree on Thursday announced that it has hired Bobby Aflatooni, executive vice president and chief information officer for real estate developer The Howard Hughes Corp., as its CIO.

The hire comes less than a month after Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., which also owns the Family Dollar chain, announced a shakeup of its C-suite, including now-former CIO Andy Paisley.

“Bobby is a proven leader with a strong track record of delivering results and leading multiple system transformations,” Dollar Tree President and CEO Mike Witynski said in a statement. “The technology investments we will make over the next several years will be critical to our success as we enable our people, simplify work streams and accelerate our growth.”

Aflatooni joined Texas-based Howard Hughes Corp. in 2018, coming from Tennessee-based Dollar Tree competitor Dollar General Corp., where he worked more than nine years in information technology. He was promoted to vice president of IT supply chain and operations at Dollar General in 2017.

Aflatooni also worked in development and oversight of IT priorities for Yum! Brands, CapitalOne Auto Finance, LayerOne, Silverleaf Resorts and CapitalOne Services, and served in the Marine Corps, according to a news release.

“Our team will be driven to focus on systems infrastructure enhancements to support the company’s growth by providing better support to store associates, merchandising and marketing teams, and our supply chain to deliver improved shopper experience,” Aflatooni said in a statement. “Having worked with, and supported, a number of leaders at Dollar Tree in previous roles will enable us to hit the ground running.”

In December 2021, activist investment firm Mantle Ridge, which owns a $1.8 billion stake in Dollar Tree, sought to overhaul Dollar Tree’s board and hire the former CEO of rival retailer Dollar General Corp., Reuters reported. Dollar Tree Board Chair Rick Dreiling was CEO of Dollar General from 2008 until his retirement in June 2015, and served as Dollar General’s chairman until 2016.

Dollar Tree is seeking permanent replacements for its chief operating officer, chief strategy officer, chief financial officer and chief legal officer.

“This is the first of a number of executive additions related to our recently announced leadership changes, as we scale our leadership team to accelerate the growth and transformation of our company,” Witynski said.

Dollar Tree also announced that it was moving its previously announced investor day from October 2022 until spring 2023.

GDIT hires former Homeland Security official

Falls Church based-General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. has named Matt Hayden, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary, to serve as its new vice president of cyber client engagement, the defense contractor announced May 5.

Hayden will be responsible for building relationships within the cyber industry and with government leaders as well as growth strategies. He previously served as assistant secretary for cyber, infrastructure, risk and resilience policy at DHS, where he led policy for the department’s efforts to reduce national risk with a focus on critical infrastructure cybersecurity, federal network security and cyber crime. According to his LinkedIn account, Hayden worked in the role from September 2020 to January 2021.

“Matt is a nationally-recognized expert in both cyber technology and policy and further deepens our cyber expertise within the intelligence and homeland security sector,” Kelly Ferrell, GDIT senior vice president for intelligence and homeland security, said in a statement. “His extensive background and knowledge of cybersecurity will play a critical role in helping our customers modernize their cyber defenses and enable their missions.”

Before serving in the assistant secretary role at DHS, Hayden also served in the department as senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as well as deputy assistant secretary for the private sector within the Officer of Partnership and Engagement.

“As federal agencies adopt zero trust strategies and harden their cyber defenses, GDIT is focused on supporting customers with innovative solutions,” said Hayden. “I am looking forward to working alongside other GDIT cyber experts to help solve our customers’ mission-critical challenges.”

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.