- Nedzbala has served as GDIT’s SVP and chief business officer
- He joined the company through the 2018 CSRA acquisition
- Gilliland led GDIT starting in 2017
Paul Nedzbala, the senior vice president and chief business officer of General Dynamics Information Technology, has been appointed to run the IT business segment as interim president.
General Dynamics announced the leadership change Friday after Amy Gilliland left the unit she led for nine years.
Gilliland joined the corporation in 2005 and became president of GDIT in 2017. The announcement gave no reason for her exit, no effective date and no timetable for naming a permanent successor. Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, thanked Gilliland for her contributions and wished her well.
Gilliland and Novakovic are both nine-time Wash100 Award recipients.
Who Is Paul Nedzbala?
Nedzbala joined GDIT in April 2018 through GDIT’s acquisition of CSRA, where he was executive vice president for the health and civil group. He had spent 19 years with the acquired company and its predecessor, SRA International, which merged with Computer Sciences Corp.’s public sector unit in 2015 to form CSRA.
At GDIT, Nedzbala previously led the federal civilian division, directing strategy, growth and performance for teams supporting federal civilian agencies. His current remit covers corporate development along with enterprise functions, including real estate and facilities, program support, technology shared services, security, supply chain, and subcontracts.
Before SRA, Nedzbala spent nearly 14 years at Constella Group, serving as chief operating officer of its health sciences business unit. His earlier career included leadership roles at United Information Systems and the Washington Consulting Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management science from Virginia Tech.
Novakovic called Nedzbala a proven leader with decades of experience in federal IT services and said the company is grateful for his willingness to serve until a permanent president is named.
What Has Gilliland Said About Defense Technology?
Gilliland spent 21 years at General Dynamics. In an August column for the Forbes Technology Council, the former Navy surface warfare officer argued that connecting sensors, software, networks, autonomous systems and satellites into a single working picture matters more than any individual technology. She pointed to the Defense Operations Grid Mesh Accelerator, which GDIT built with Amazon Web Services, and wrote that the system reduces threat identification and response time from 30 minutes to under 3 seconds.
