Government Contractors | Technology | Aerospace 2025: KAREN DAHUT

Dahut became CEO of Google Public Sector, a subsidiary focused on government and educational contracting, in 2022. Before joining Google, Dahut led Booz Allen Hamilton’s $4 billion global defense business.

Dahut served in the U.S. Navy for six years, including at the Navy Medical Research Institute in Maryland. As a civilian, she worked at the Logistics Management Institute, a Tysons-based nonprofit federal contractor, before joining Booz Allen.

Dahut has a bachelor’s from Mount St. Mary’s University and a master’s degree from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Named four times to Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of top government contracting executives, Dahut also sits on the board of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum and the Center for a New American Security.

Google Public Sector has a Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a Data & Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence and a Federal AI Solution Factory with Accenture Federal Services, supporting federal agencies. In March, Fortune 500 defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced it is working with Google Public Sector to integrate Google’s generative AI capabilities to enhance national security, aerospace and scientific applications.