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  • Border Patrol Vet Carla Provost Named Adviser at Constellis; Terry Ryan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Border Patrol Vet Carla Provost Named Adviser at Constellis; Terry Ryan Quoted

    Carla Provost, a retired federal servant with 25 years of experience working at the U.S. Border Patrol, has been appointed as adviser at risk management company Constellis. Her time at USBP included serving as chief of the agency from August 2018 to January 2020, the Washington, D.C.-based company said Thursday. Terry Ryan, CEO of Constellis, said […] More

  • Jeremy Feinberg Appointed SpiderOak Finance Chief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Feinberg Appointed SpiderOak Finance Chief

    Jeremy Feinberg, a 15-year finance professional in the technology sector, has joined cybersecurity software and service provider SpiderOak as chief financial officer. His role will encompass financial reporting, budgeting, planning and forecasting functions, SpiderOak said Thursday. Feinberg was vice president of finance at ClearShark, an information technology provider to the federal sector, for the past […] More

  • Former HII Senior Counsel Adam Overstreet Joins Austal USA as Legal Affairs VP & Compliance Chief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former HII Senior Counsel Adam Overstreet Joins Austal USA as Legal Affairs VP & Compliance Chief

    Adam Overstreet, former senior counsel at HII, has been named vice president of legal affairs and chief compliance officer at Austal USA. His new responsibilities include overseeing legal issues in employment, labor and commercial transactions, as well as leading continuous implementation and enhancement of Austal USA’s compliance activities, the company said Tuesday. Overstreet’s law background […] More

  • Former DIU Director Michael Brown Named Partner at Shield Capital - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DIU Director Michael Brown Named Partner at Shield Capital

    Michael Brown, a previous Wash100 awardee who used to lead the Department of Defense’s innovation arm, was appointed as full-time partner at Shield Capital after serving as venture partner at the private equity firm since October 2022. He brings to the role his deep understanding of the firm’s artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity and space investments and his […] More

  • Lockheed Subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC Appoints Brian Sutterfield as CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC Appoints Brian Sutterfield as CEO

    Brian Sutterfield, former systems engineering director at Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business, has been named as CEO of Lockheed subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday. ForwardEdge was established in a bid to fortify Lockheed’s design capabilities in application-specific integrated circuit and microelectronics, Sutterfield said. He spent most of his career at […] More

  • Dewberry EVP Phil Thiel to Serve on National Geospatial Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dewberry EVP Phil Thiel to Serve on National Geospatial Advisory Committee

    Phil Thiel, executive vice president at Dewberry and principal-in-charge of the company’s geospatial contracts, has been named as one of the new members of a committee responsible for making geospatial policy and management recommendations to the federal government. “The National Geospatial Advisory Committee plays a vital role in advancing the nation’s adoption and implementation of geospatial […] More

  • Former ASRC Federal Exec Jeffrey Weiss Named Qlarant CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former ASRC Federal Exec Jeffrey Weiss Named Qlarant CFO

    Jeffrey Weiss, a more than 17-year federal contracting professional and former group vice president of finance and business operations at ASRC Federal, has been appointed as chief financial officer of Qlarant. He brings his extensive experience in business development and project management to Qlarant as the contractor continues its leadership team expansion efforts, the Easton, Maryland-based technology company said […] More

  • Shravalya Valet Named Federal Health Capture Director at General Dynamics IT Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shravalya Valet Named Federal Health Capture Director at General Dynamics IT Business

    Shravalya Valet, former director of strategy and innovation at V2X, has been appointed director of capture in federal health division at General Dynamics’ information technology subsidiary, according to a LinkedIn post published Monday. Prior to joining General Dynamics Information Technology, she worked at the former Vectrus company for over half a decade. She held her most recent […] More

  • Army Vet Amanda Pommerenck Joins Dewberry as Associate VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Vet Amanda Pommerenck Joins Dewberry as Associate VP

    Dewberry has named U.S. Army veteran Amanda Pommerenck as an associate vice president and federal project manager.  In her new role, Pommerenck will oversee the management and handling of programs related to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies, as well as offer project management and technical support, the professional services firm said […] More

  • Optimum Technologies Names Michael McMeekin as Senior Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Optimum Technologies Names Michael McMeekin as Senior Adviser

    Optimum Technologies has named Michael McMeekin, an industry veteran with years-long experience with Northrop Grumman, as a senior strategy and business development adviser.  In his new role, McMeekin will identify growth opportunities for OpTech and its mission partners by collaborating with internal and external personnel, the Space Enterprise Consortium registered non-traditional contractor said Friday.  McMeekin’s […] More

  • Former IRS Official Bob Barr Named VP in CGI Federal's Civilian Business Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former IRS Official Bob Barr Named VP in CGI Federal’s Civilian Business Unit

    Bob Barr, former assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, has been appointed as a vice president in CGI Federal’s civilian business arm. In his new role, Barr will guide CGI Federal’s Treasury account team in conducting its time-sensitive work to modernize the information technology of IRS, the Fairfax, Virginia-based enterprise said Friday. “Bob brings […] More

  • ID.me Closes $132M Series D Funding; Names Samantha Greenberg as CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ID.me Closes $132M Series D Funding; Names Samantha Greenberg as CFO

    ID.me has closed a Viking Global Investors-led Series D funding round and raised $132 million, bringing total investments to the company to over $240 million.  Participants in the funding round were CapitalG, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint, FTV Capital, PSP Growth, Auctus Investment Group, Moonshots Capital and Scout Ventures, the digital identity company said Tuesday. ID.me also […] More