Executive Moves

United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has promoted 14-year company veteran Christopher Calio as president of UTC's Pratt & Whitney subsidiary in a move that will take effect in early 2020. He will succeed Robert Leduc, who is due to retire from the company next year after a four-decade career, UTC said Tuesday.

John Long, who previously held a nearly 13-year career at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed director of business development at LMI, G2Exchange ETC reported Tuesday.

Jim Colson, a two-decade IBM (NYSE: IBM) veteran, has joined Cubic (NYSE: CUB) as vice president and chief technology officer.

Kevin Phillips, president and CEO of ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has been appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Professional Services Council. He joins seven other new board members who were approved early in 2019 and his appointment was approved at a meeting held on June 18, PSC said Friday

David Melcher, an aerospace and defense industry veteran, has been appointed by the board to serve as independent lead director at Cubic (NYSE: CUB).

Karoom Brown, chief global strategy, products and growth officer at OptumServe, has been promoted to the CEO position at Optum's federal health information technology services subsidiary, G2Xchange Health reported Thursday.

President Donald Trump nominated Mark Esper, secretary of the U.S. Army and a 2019 Wash100 winner, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Defense, The New York Times reported Friday.

Steve Tolbert, former senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta’s (NYSE: PRSP) civilian state and local group, has been appointed executive vice president of business systems at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), G2Exchange ETC reported Thursday.

Shayne Higdon, a former executive at software vendor BMC, has joined cybersecurity company Forcepoint as chief operating officer. He will oversee operations, engineering, product management, customer support and service organizations in his new role, Forcepoint said Wednesday.

Joy Jarrett, who holds 20 years of technology, healthcare and service industry experience, has joined management consulting services provider Guidehouse as chief marketing officer.