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  • Mac Curtis: Vencore Lands NVTC Award in Year of Rebrand, Acquisition Moves - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mac Curtis: Vencore Lands NVTC Award in Year of Rebrand, Acquisition Moves

    Vencore has received the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Top Technology Company of the Year award in the category of firms with more than $50 million in annual revenue. The company said Tuesday it was chosen from among six finalists and 100 total nominees from Northern Virginia’s technology community. Chantilly, Virginia-based Vencore rebranded to its current name from The SI Organization and completed two acquisitions […] More

  • Executive Profile: Steven Shugart, President of GardaWorld's Govt Services Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Steven Shugart, President of GardaWorld’s Govt Services Division

    Steven Shugart serves as president of the government services business at GardaWorld, a position he assumed in October 2014. Prior to GardaWorld, he was the senior vice president of business development at DynCorp International and held a VP role in the company’s security, training and mentoring group. He has also served as VP of operations […] More

  • Executive Profile: Kevin Phillips, ManTech EVP and CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Kevin Phillips, ManTech EVP and CFO

    Kevin Phillips serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer at ManTech International. Prior to his CFO appointment, he participated in business issues and the integration of acquisitions as a corporate VP and chief of staff. He joined ManTech in December 2002 upon that company’s acquisition of information technology and software contractor CTX Corp., where he served as that company’s […] More

  • Executive Profile: Mark Kontos, MITRE SVP and CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Mark Kontos, MITRE SVP and CFO

    Mark Kontos serves as senior vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer and an executive council member at MITRE Corp., which he first joined in 2005. He manages the nonprofit organization’s financial functions and has directed the development, construction and financing for a fourth building at MITRE’s McLean, Virginia headquarters in a push to place its workforce […] More

  • Bill Rowan, VMware's New US Federal Lead, on Open Source's Evolution and Data Analytics Collaborations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Rowan, VMware’s New US Federal Lead, on Open Source’s Evolution and Data Analytics Collaborations

    Bill Rowan was appointed vice president of the federal business at cloud computing and virtualization company VMware in November after nearly four years at the firm. Rowan joined VMware in 2010 to lead its Defense Department business and the nearly 25-year veteran also held leadership roles at firms such as IBM, MicroStrategy and Storage Technology Corp. In […] More

  • Executive Profile: Barbara Humpton, SVP and COO at Siemens Government Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Barbara Humpton, SVP and COO at Siemens Government Technologies

    Barbara Humpton serves as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Siemens Government Technologies, the U.S. federal business organization of the German industrial conglomerate. She elevated to the COO post in December 2014 after three years as the business’ SVP of business development. In that role, she led work to bring Siemens’ offerings in energy, infrastructure and […] More

  • Executive Profile: Lance Howden, a Hortonworks Senior Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Lance Howden, a Hortonworks Senior Director

    Lance Howden, a 16-year technology sales veteran, serves as a senior director at Hortonworks and works with agencies in the intelligence community. He leads teams that develop and promote the company’s offerings to U.S. homeland security, intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies. He has worked on customer and strategic partnerships as well as other programs for the intelligence community. Howden previously held positions […] More

  • Executive Profile: Ray Harris, Iron Bow CIO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Ray Harris, Iron Bow CIO

    Ray Harris is chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies and brings more than 20 years of enterprise technology, management and cybersecurity experience to the role. He has led the company’s efforts to build an enterprise resource planning system and a central database for managing business functions and performance across the organization. Harris also implemented […] More

  • Executive Profile: Robin Lineberger, Lead Client Service Partner for Deloitte's A&D Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Robin Lineberger, Lead Client Service Partner for Deloitte’s A&D Practice

    Robin Lineberger serves as lead client service partner for the aerospace and defense industry practice of Deloitte. where he also holds a senior adviser title. He previously served as CEO of the firm’s federal government services business, where he led a team at least 7,000 professionals to provide risk advisory, consulting and financial advisory services to U.S. government agencies. Lineberger is […] More

  • Executive Profile: Robert Carey, CSC Public Sector Cyber VP and GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Robert Carey, CSC Public Sector Cyber VP and GM

    Robert Carey serves as vice president and general manager for the public sector cybersecurity business at Computer Sciences Corp. He joined the company in April after a 32-year government career that concluded with three-and-a-half years of work as principal chief information officer at the U.S. Defense Department. Carey also led eBusiness and smart card programs […] More

  • Executive Profile: George Newstrom, VP and GM of Dell's Federal Gov't Services Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: George Newstrom, VP and GM of Dell’s Federal Gov’t Services Business

    George Newstrom serves as vice president and general manager of the federal government services business at Dell. Prior to Dell, he served as president and chief operating officer of Lee Technologies, president and CEO of WiSPER Technologies and as a corporate senior vice president at EDS. He has also served as secretary of technology, chief information officer and chief strategist for the state of […] More

  • Executive Profile: Robert Zitz, Leidos SVP and Chief Systems Architect - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Robert Zitz, Leidos SVP and Chief Systems Architect

    Robert Zitz is a senior vice president and chief systems architect at Leidos, tasked to help oversee development efforts on the company’s business, technology and technical plans, concepts and strategies. He has more than three decades of experience in the intelligence community space, previously filling leadership roles at the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, […] More