Executive Moves

Jeffrey McGowan, formerly director of business development at Synectics for Management Decisions, has assumed the same role within the federal health growth group at General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business.

Tom Foster, a more than 35-year nuclear industry veteran, will assume the role of chief operating officer of Amentum’s nuclear and environment strategic business unit on March 1.

Information technology industry veterans Troy Grubbs and Tim Angelos have joined Hitachi Vantara’s federal subsidiary as sales directors.

Chris Williams, a former division vice president at Jacobs (NYSE: J), has been named senior VP in charge of Stantec's (NYSE: STN) U.S. federal program.

Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) CEO Steve Mollenkopf and Akhil Johri, former chief financial officer and executive vice president of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), have been nominated to serve on the board of Boeing (NYSE: BA).

Donald Trigg, an 18-year veteran of Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN), has been promoted as president of the Kansas City-based health information technology provider.

James Younts, a government market veteran with 16 years of business development and capture experience, has joined NTT Data Services as senior director of Department of Defense and Defense Health Agency growth, FedHealthIT reported Friday.

Gabrielle Mellon, former global project management officer for recruiting operations at Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), has joined Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN) as director of talent acquisition, GeekWire reported Thursday.

Daniel Ross, most recently vice president of human resources at Day & Zimmermann’s engineering, construction and maintenance group, has been named VP of corporate development at the Philadelphia-based construction and engineering services provider.

Stephanie Wilson, chief strategy officer of NetImpact Strategies over the past four years, has been appointed as the first chief operating officer at the information technology services provider.