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Operations, finance and growth leadership moves across the market

One of the GovCon market's main publicly-traded companies hires a new chief human resources officer and three board appointments also feature.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cyber champion Robert Metzger dies after cancer battle

The defense industry is mourning the loss of a legal expert, widely known as the "Godfather of CMMC," whose work on supply chain security helped shape national standards.

  • By Nick Wakeman

PSC hires former Trump official Carroll as its new leader

Jim Carroll will join the 400-member company trade association on May 19 and succeed David Berteau, who has led it for the past nine years.

  • By Ross Wilkers

C Speed appoints McLaughlin as CEO

The former deputy Cyber Command leader succeeds Dave Lysack, who founded the radar tech company in 2006 and will move into a different role

  • By Ross Wilkers

Growth, operations and tech leadership moves across the market

A trio of board of directors additions also feature in this newest catalog of key hires, promotions and appointments.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed promotes Scott to finance chief

Now-former CFO Jay Malave is leaving the defense giant after three years there.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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APL promotes Van Wie to director

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's next leader will be the ninth in the nonprofit's 83-year history.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Growth, tech and talent leadership moves across the market

One promotion to chief operating officer and post-acquisition hire of a new chief financial officer also feature.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Rancher's federal arm hires veteran of SRI, In-Q-Tel as chief executive

Ryan Lewis will lead the next phase of Rancher Government Solutions' strategy to expand in IT infrastructure modernization.

  • By Ross Wilkers

HawkEye 360 brings in Probert to lead US government biz

The 10-year-old satellite operator is pushing to increase its footprint across defense and intelligence agencies.

  • By Ross Wilkers

A baker's dozen corporate leadership moves to note as spring arrives

This new listing of key hires and promotions across the government market also coincides with the ending of 2025's first quarter.

  • By Ross Wilkers

To survive the new GovCon environment, your people are your ultimate competitive edge

Five critical blind spots that threaten you contracts, and how to transform your team before it is too late, according to BD expert Nic Coppings.

  • By Nic Coppings

Retired Leidos exec shares how the company instilled agility into its corporate culture

Gerry Fasano looks back at a 41-year career and why his favorite job was leading the integration of the Lockheed Martin IS&GS services business into Leidos, which essentially created a new company.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Second Front hires Hoffman as president

The two-decade legal and business veteran joins Second Front from one of the national security software company's investors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

International and growth leadership moves across the market

Plus a group that advocates for commercial tech companies brings in its new leader and a former GovCon CEO steps down from a board chairman role he held for three years.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Isakowitz to step down as Aerospace Corp. CEO

Steve Isakowitz has led the nonprofit space organization for 10 years and oversaw the relocation of its headquarters to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Shield AI hires former Splunk chief as CEO

Gary Steele will lead the defense tech unicorn's push to scale out after a $240 million investment round.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Bechtel promotes Volovar to lead government portfolio

The global construction giant's nuclear, security and environmental global business unit houses all of its U.S. and international public sector work.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Growth and space leadership moves across the market

Our periodic summary of executive movement begins with one of the market's most notable private equity names adding to its braintrust.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Sabel Systems hires Purvis as chief executive

The former QinetiQ US CEO will lead Sabel through this new phase of its strategy as a Sagewind Capital-backed company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Health, operations and talent leadership moves across the market

Three former GovCon CEOs also take up seats at boards of directors, including a founder who sold her company to one of the market's blue bloods.

  • By Ross Wilkers