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Phebe Novakovic

The Power 50
May 20, 2025

Three CEOs from Virginia return to Fortune’s most powerful women list

Three Virginia defense contractors' CEOs returned to Fortune's 100 Most Powerful Women in business list for 2025. They lead General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and SAIC. 

Photo illustration by Mark Jeffries
Sep 29, 2022

Stairway to heaven

Nationally, CEO pay in 2021 reached historic highs for the second year in a row, and Virginia was no exception to this trend. The CEOs of Virginia’s largest publicly traded companies were rewarded handsomely last year, with CEO compensation rising 4.9% year-over-year to an average $8.467 million compensation package, compared with $8.068 million in 2020. […]

Phebe Novakovic Chairman and CEO General Dynamics Corp. Reston
Nov 29, 2020

War and peace

Like a lot of bosses in spring and summer 2020, Phebe Novakovic confronted challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. It threatened lives and economies. Managers weren’t sure when some customers would be able to pay their bills. Employees were anxious; clients were understandably skittish. With travel shutting down, in-person sales demonstrations were curtailed. But unlike most […]

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