Executive Moves

Leidos has named Terry Phillips, former U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations executive director, as the Reston, Virginia-based information technology company’s senior vice president and chief security officer. He will lead, manage and direct activities within Leidos’ Global Security Organization as well as oversee compliance efforts with national security standards for U.S. and foreign government customers, […] More

Rob Sherry, formerly senior director of VMware‘s federal health care business, has been named director of civilian sales at San Francisco-based identity and access management company Okta, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. He most recently led a team of sales professionals focused on digital transformation offerings for the federal health market. In a February 2019 interview […] More

John Luongo, former chief growth officer of IndraSoft, has been appointed to the same position at Reston, Virginia-based management and technology consultancy SeKON Enterprise. The 25-year government services industry veteran will be responsible for driving business development and capture initiatives in SeKON’s newly created role, the company said Tuesday. Luongo spent two decades at SRA […] More

Jay Iyengar, formerly chief technology and quality officer at CNH Industrial, has joined Oshkosh to serve as executive vice president and chief technology and strategic sourcing officer. She will oversee efforts to invest in, develop and deploy vehicle technologies, as well as lead sourcing activities aimed at building a supply chain for the delivery of […] More

William McGann, formerly chief technology officer at a Leidos business, has been named chief operating and technology officer at Quantum Computing Inc., where he will oversee product engineering, technology development and research efforts in his new role. QCI said Tuesday the three-decade industry veteran will be responsible for driving the company’s quantum software initiatives through […] More

Gayle Grasso brings her over three decades of experience in information technology sales to management consulting firm Sierra7, where she will serve as director of business development. Sierra7 said Monday Grasso will support the Falls Church, Virginia-based consultant’s work with the Department of Veterans Affairs under the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation, the Veterans […] More

James Gateau, a more than two-decade U.S. Navy veteran, has joined professional services contractor Peerless Technologies as chief growth officer. He succeeds Michael Bridges, former Peerless president who has served as interim CGO since March, and will oversee the development of strategies for generating new business opportunities, the company said Monday. Gateau most recently served […] More

Michael Buscher, former chief growth officer at Bigbear.ai, has started a new role as chief strategy officer of unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing company UAV Factory, according to his LinkedIn post Monday. He will help lead UAV Factory through its business combination with Jennings Aeronautics. Both companies are backed by private equity firm AE Industrial Partners. “It’s […] More

Satellogic will add six new members to its board of directors upon becoming publicly listed through the geospatial company’s merger with CF Acquisition Corp. Marcos Galperin, Jenette Ramos, Brad Halverson, Dava Newman, Tarun Bhatnagar and Robert Bearden will work with Ted Wang, incoming chairman, and Emiliano Kargieman, CEO of Satellogic, on the board, the company […] More