🤩 Introducing the GovCon trailblazers of 2025! The Wash100 Award winners have been officially revealed, highlighting the most influential leaders shaping the future of government contracting. Check out the full list of honorees here: wash100.com/news/executive-m… __ #Wash100 #Award

The U.S. Army has awarded Shift5 a five-year, $99 million contract to support the service branch’s Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, initiative. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/army… __ #Contract #USArmy

Susannah Wright, a longtime MITRE legal adviser, has been named vice president and deputy general counsel of @MITREcorp Read more: govconwire.com/articles/mitr… __ #GovConLeadership #MITRE

General Dynamics‘ board of directors has selected President Danny Deep to succeed nine-time #Wash100 Award winner Phebe Novakovic as CEO. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/gene… __ #GovConLeadership #GeneralDynamics

Caitlin Marsh, a former @auterion operations executive, has been named president of @KeplerComms, the U.S. arm of Toronto-based space infrastructure company Kepler Communications. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/cait… __ #GovconLeadership #Kepler

Michael Brasseur, a former @USNavy officer who founded the service’s Task Force 59, has joined @BoozAllen as an executive vice president in its defense technology business. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/booz… __ #GovConLeadership #BoozAllenHamilton

Michael LaRouche, former CEO of Serco North America, has begun serving as president and CEO-designate of @TrinzicGlobal @KBRincorporated‘s planned Mission Technology Solutions, or MTS, spinoff. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/mich… __ #GovConLeadership #Trinzic

President Donald Trump said that 18 munitions plants are under construction by defense companies, with some of the facilities nearing completion. Trump made the remarks during his address to the @UN General Assembly in New York. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/trum… __ #DOW #UNGA

General Dynamics Information Technology has appointed retired Maj. Gen. Ryan Heritage as vice president of full-spectrum cyber. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/ryan… __ #GovConLeadership #GDIT

QTS Data Centers has appointed Ivan Skerl as chief digital and technology officer, giving him responsibility for the company’s global technology strategy Learn more: govconwire.com/articles/qts-… __ #GovConLeadership #QTSDataCenters

Riverside Research has appointed Tom Lash, a national security technology leader, as president and CEO. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/tom-… __ #GovConLeadership #RiversideResearch

Parry Labs has named Scott DeVona as its chief revenue officer, tasking him with leading revenue strategy and execution as demand for open, rapid interoperability at the tactical edge continues to grow. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/scot… _ #GovConLeadership #ParryLabs

President Donald Trump has nominated Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, @SECNAV a 2026 #Wash100 Award popular vote winner, to permanently lead the Department of the @USNavy Read more here: govconwire.com/articles/hung… _ #GovConLeadership #USNavy #DOW

Julie Barth, an enterprise business executive with over three decades of experience across the national security community, has joined Alpha Omega as senior vice president of business development. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/alph… _ #GovConNews #AlphaOmega

The Air Force Research Laboratory has begun soliciting offers for a potential $505 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide mission support services for the 711th Human Performance Wing. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/afrl… __ #AFRL #DOW

IBM has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, taking on a research organization whose silicon-spin qubit work runs parallel to the superconducting architecture IBM has built its quantum program around. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/ibm-… __ #Acquisition #Govcon

Booz Allen Hamilton has completed its $720 million acquisition of Ultra I&C’s mission solutions business unit, adding defense software, encryption and edge computing products to its portfolio. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/booz… __ #Acquisitions #BoozAllenHamilton

MANTECH has named Graham Katz chief technology officer and executive director of its data and artificial intelligence practice. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/mant… __ #GovconLeadership #MANTECH

Acting Secretary of the Navy and Wash100 Award winner Hung Cao has named Barry Tanner as the permanent chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, Read more: govconwire.com/articles/barr… __ #GovConLeadership #DOW

BAE Systems Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, has appointed Michael Loeffler as vice president of supply chain. Read more: govconwire.com/articles/bae-… __ #GovConNews #BAESystems

BigBear.ai announced that retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey has joined its board of directors. Read the full update: govconwire.com/articles/sean… __ #GovConLeadership #BigBear.ai