Government Contractors | Technology 2025: ABOD, CRAIG P.

Since Abod founded Carahsoft in 2004, the privately owned IT and cybersecurity solutions provider has grown to land the No. 26 spot on Forbes’ 2024 list of the nation’s largest private companies, with more than $15 billion in revenue and 3,200 employees.

In January, Abod, a University of Maryland graduate, was named for the 11th time to Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of top government contracting executives.

Abod’s company has notched several large contract wins in recent years, including a spot announced in 2024 on an Air Force contract worth up to $975 million to optimize the operational readiness of deployed weapons systems.

Bloomberg News in February reported that the Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission are investigating a $32 million deal between Carahsoft and CrowdStrike to provide cybersecurity tools to the Internal Revenue Service, but the IRS never purchased the items. That comes amid a separate probe into whether the firm conspired with German software company SAP to fix prices on sales to the U.S. military and government customers. Law enforcement agencies raided Carahsoft’s Reston headquarters in 2024. SAP said the raid was unrelated to that business.