Potomac Officers Club, the national capital region’s premier GovCon events, networking and media organization, is ecstatic to announce that Thomas Rondeau, the Department of War’s principal director for FutureG, will give a keynote address at the 2026 Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 29 at the Hilton McLean in northern Virginia. The 202...
Auria has named Chris Hassett as the new executive vice president and general manager of its commercial and public sector business unit. The company said Thursday that Hassett will guide strategy, customer engagement and operational execution across the business. Who Is Chris Hassett? Before joining Auria, Hassett served as senior executive director...
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $99 million contract from the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command to design, deploy and sustain advanced wireless connectivity for MSC’s government-operated ships. What Will Booz Allen Deliver Under the Contract? The work will extend secure, resilient communications to civil service mariners aboard vess...
SAIC has secured a $1.4 billion COBRA task order to accelerate the modernization of systems that feed into the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control ecosystem. The five-year award tasks SAIC with rapidly developing, integrating and fielding technologies that strengthen decision superiority and operational readin...
Private equity firm McNally Capital has merged its portfolio company Quiet Professionals with Spathe Systems to create a defense technology platform aimed at expanding support for U.S. Special Operations Forces and the broader defense community. Chicago-based McNally said Thursday Quiet Professionals CEO Andy Wilson will lead the combined comp...
Battelle has elected retired U.S. Navy Adm. Craig Faller and healthcare industry executive Adele Gulfo to its board of directors. “We are honored to welcome Craig and Adele to our board,” said Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle and a 10-time Wash100 winner. “Their leadership and diverse expertise will help guide Battelle’s mission...
QinetiQ has named Brad Feldmann, a past Wash100 awardee, and John Kavanaugh to its SSA board of directors, established in 2021 under a special security agreement with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The company said Wednesday the appointments follow Tom Vecchiolla’s departure to become QinetiQ US president and CE...
Vibrint has expanded its business development leadership with the appointment of John Martin as vice president for the Maryland region, furthering the company’s broader growth efforts across the defense and intelligence markets. Who Is John Martin? Martin has spent more than two decades working across engineering, consulting and defense progra...
SAIC will consolidate its five current business groups into three as part of an organizational restructuring intended to simplify operations, strengthen customer focus and drive growth and shareholder value. The company said Thursday the new structure will take effect Jan. 31. SAIC is one of the sponsors of the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Def...
The $25 billion provided for the U.S. Coast Guard in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the largest investment in the service’s history, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a packed ballroom on Wednesday during her keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Homeland Security Summit. Noem, who received two standing ovat...
