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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: MANGO, STEPHANIE

Mango took the helm of CGI Federal, the U.S. arm of Montreal-based IT and professional service consultancy CGI, in 2021. She joined CGI in 2004 when it purchased her former employer, American Management Systems. She was promoted to senior vice president in 2015.

In September 2024, the company finalized its purchase of Fairfax County IT consulting firm Aeyon. A month later, the company announced it won a spot on a $2 billion, 10-year U.S. Department of the Interior contract for cloud services and solutions. In May, CGI was picked by the Federal Administration to lead the modernization of its Notice to Airmen system, a tool used to deliver essential information to aircrew.

Mango has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Virginia. WashingtonExec named her one of its 2024 Top Execs to Watch, and she has been included on Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of top government contracting executives four times.

Mango was elected to serve a three-year term as secretary of the Professional Services Council’s board starting in January. She also chairs the American Council for and Industry Advisory Council and serves on the board for TiE-DC.

Government Contractors | Technology 2025: PARKS, DELBERT

As site executive at Virginia, Micron’s semiconductor manufacturing facility for computer memory chips, Parks oversees more than 1,230 employees for one of Virginia’s largest exporters.

A federally subsidized expansion, including $257 million in federal funds announced in December 2024, is expected to double the plant’s workforce, as Micron plans to move its existing DRAM manufacturing from Taiwan to Virginia. In December 2024, Micron announced a $2.17 billion investment in its Manassas facility, adding 340 employees.

The Idaho-based manufacturer doubled down on its investments in June, saying it plans to spend about $150 billion to expand manufacturing in Idaho, New York and Virginia, with another $50 billion going toward research and development.

In February, the Manassas City Council extended a tax incentive for Micron from 2030 to 2035, saving Micron about an additional $50 million in local taxes.

Parks earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics and mathematics from Stephen F. Austin State University. He serves on the boards of Norfolk State University and the George Mason University Foundation.

Micron reported fiscal 2024 revenue of $25.11 billion, up from $15.54 billion in 2023.

Government Contractors | Technology 2025: HENEGHAN, JOHN

The leader of ASGN’s federal consulting subsidiary since 2022, Heneghan was an English teacher before turning to tech. He previously served as ECS’ chief operating officer and held executive roles at Stanley Associates and CGI Federal.

In fiscal 2024, ASGN earned $4.1 billion in revenue, down from $4.45 billion from the previous year. In addition to receiving a spot on a $20 billion U.S. Department of Treasury blanket purchase agreement for cybersecurity enhancements in March, ECS was awarded a spot on a potential $1.1 billion National Institutes of Health contract in 2024.

In October 2024, ECS received a $528 million task order from the U.S. Department of Homeland’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, the General Services Administration, under the Trump administration, sent a letter in May to parent company ASGN, along with 18 other government contractors, to provide input and pricing information on their contracts.

ECS also created and maintains the FBI’s CODIS DNA index system. In 2025, Heneghan received his fourth Wash100 Award recognizing top government contracting leaders.

Government Contractors | Technology 2025: NOVAKOVIC, PHEBE N.

Novakovic has led General Dynamics, one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies, since 2013. During her tenure, General Dynamics, with Newport News Shipbuilding as a subcontractor, won the Navy’s largest-ever shipbuilding contract, worth up to $24.2 billion, to build nuclear submarines.

The Fortune Global 500 company employs over 100,000 people and reported $47.7 billion in 2024 revenue, up 12.9% from 2023.

Ranked No. 36 on Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful Women in business list in 2025, Novakovic is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

General Dynamics’s Electric Boat subsidiary has received three contracts totaling about $3.8 billion for long-lead time material and planning for Virginia-class submarine construction as of summer 2025. In April, Electric Boat received a contract modification worth up to $17.2 billion for construction of two fiscal 2024 Virginia-class submarines that includes investments in shipyard productivity and workforce support.

A corporate director for JPMorgan Chase, Novakovic serves on several boards, including for Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. She chairs the board of the Association of the United States Army.

Government Contractors | Technology 2025: ORTBERG, ROBERT K. ‘KELLY’  

In August 2024, Ortberg succeeded Dave Calhoun as the Fortune Global 500 aerospace and defense giant’s chief executive.

Ortberg is the retired president and CEO of Collins Aerospace, previously Rockwell Collins and now absorbed into Arlington-based defense contractor RTX. He serves on the Aerospace Industries Association’s executive committee.

‘s commercial jet sector’s recent troubles continued in June when a Boeing 787 Air India jet crashed, killing 260 people. A preliminary report appeared to rule out mechanical or design error. In August, 3,200 machinists who build fighter jets in St. Louis, Missouri, went on strike.

In July, Boeing and Alaska Airlines settled with passengers who sued for $1 billion following a midair wall-panel blowout on a 2024 flight. In May, the U.S. Justice Department and Boeing reached a deal for the company to avoid criminal prosecution over fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes in 2018 and 2019; Boeing will pay and invest more than $1.1 billion, including $445 million to crash victims’ families.

In March, two Boeing Starliner astronauts returned to Earth on a SpaceX spacecraft after being stranded on the International Space Station for 286 days.

Boeing posted 2024 revenue of $66.5 billion, down from $77.79 billion in 2023, but the commercial airplane unit reported 81% in revenue growth in the second quarter this year. Ortberg said he expects positive cash flow by the fourth quarter.

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Education 2025: RAO, MICHAEL

After a bumpy year for Rao and VCU in 2024 — first an ongoing dispute over VCU Health paying $73 million to exit a redevelopment project, followed in the spring by a violent clash between VCU police and pro-Palestinian protesters — the Richmond-based school had some good news.

The school announced plans to convert the Siegel Center into Richmond’s largest indoor concert venue to generate revenue for student-athlete compensation. In 2024, VCU also surpassed $500 million in sponsored research funding for health, sustainability and equity initiatives. In 2025, though, the school reported losing about $39.6 million in federal grants amid massive spending cuts by the new Trump administration. In 2024, VCU became the first Virginia university to offer a minor in artificial intelligence.

VCU has more than 28,000 students across more than 220 degree and certificate programs. Rao became its president in 2009, and his contract has been extended through 2030. He formerly was president of Mission College in California, chancellor of Montana State University-Northern and president of Central Michigan University.

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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: LYNCH, KIM

Lynch joined tech company in 2023. As Oracle’s executive vice president of intelligence and defense, Lynch has executed Oracle’s growth strategy and driven innovation in cloud .

For fiscal 2025, Oracle announced revenues of $57.4 billion, up 8% from the previous year.

As the Trump administration seeks to streamline government agencies, Oracle this year offered federal customers a 75% discount on its software licenses as well as deep cuts in costs to its cloud service, The Wall Street Journal reported. In October 2024, the company announced that it is migrating personnel and pay systems for the U.S. Army to its defense cloud product, helping the service secure sensitive data.

Before Oracle, Lynch spent 24 years at Booz Allen Hamilton in numerous positions, including executive vice president and client service officer to the intelligence business unit.

Lynch is a member of the Potomac Officers Club 4×24 Intelligence Leadership group and serves on the Professional Services Council board. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and George Washington , Lynch received her second Wash100 award from Executive Mosaic this year, placing her among the nation’s top government contracting executives.

Education 2025: MAHONEY, PAUL G.

A former dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and a longtime faculty member, Mahoney was named in August as the university’s interim leader. He will serve until U.Va.’s board can find a permanent replacement for former leader Jim Ryan, who resigned as head of the state’s flagship university under pressure from the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Justice.

A Yale Law and MIT alum, Mahoney joined U.Va.’s law faculty in 1990, serving as dean from 2008 to 2016, and specializes in securities regulation and corporate finance. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ryan left office in mid-July after two Virginia alumni who lead the DOJ’s civil rights division sent a volley of letters to him and other university officials demanding that they prove U.Va. was dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Ryan said that he was leaving to preserve federal funding for research and student financial aid, which according to multiple reports, a DOJ attorney had said would be threatened if Ryan hadn’t stepped down.

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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: McINTYRE, SCOTT

McIntyre was retained as CEO after Guidehouse, a federal contractor and global provider of and consulting services, was acquired by a Bain Capital Private Equity affiliate for $5.3 billion in 2023.

Guidehouse was previously owned by Veritas Capital since 2018. Employing about 18,000 people in 55 locations across the globe, Guidehouse was formed when Veritas purchased PricewaterhouseCoopers’ U.S. public sector business, for which McIntyre served as managing partner. He became Guidehouse’s CEO with that ownership change.

In September 2024, Guidehouse ranked No. 4,732 on Inc. 5000’s annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

In June, the company announced a $1.5 billion, three-year AI initiative, aiming to launch an AI platform for multiple industries.

The Wall Street Journal reported in April that Guidehouse is among several consultancies that offered cuts to their contracts in negotiations with the Trump administration as it sought to slash spending.

McIntyre has been named to Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of top government contracting leaders for nine consecutive years.

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