STEVE SCHORER CHAIRMAN AND CEO, ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP., McLEAN
Schorer’s company, part of Veritas Capital’s portfolio since 2015, is now being acquired by Huntington Ingalls Industries, which announced the $1.65 billion all-cash deal in July. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year, with Alion becoming part of the Newport News-based military shipbuilder’s Technical Solutions division. In late June, Alion won a place on the U.S. Air Force’s $950 million contract for engineering, procure- ment, integration and logistics support, which could be extended to 13 years. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a degree in electrical engineering, Schorer
was named Alion’s chairman and CEO in 2017 aſter serving as president of DynAviation and DynCorp International. His résumé also includes stints with Lockheed Missiles and Space, Raytheon and Hughes Aircraſt. Founded in 2002, Alion specializes in intelligence, military training and simulation, cybersecurity and other technology solutions to defense and intelligence community customers, with the U.S. Navy accounting for about a third of its contracts. Schorer landed on the Wash100 list in 2021 for the second time, and he was a Top 25 Executive to Watch in 2020, named by WashingtonExec.
JILL SINGER VICE PRESIDENT OF DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY, AT&T PUBLIC SECTOR AND FIRSTNET, AT&T INC., RESTON
A national security expert with more than 30 years on the public and private sides of the federal govern- ment, Singer was appointed vice president of defense and national security for the telecommunications giant’s public sector business and FirstNet broadband program in June 2020. She lead’s AT&T’s federal contracting teams for defense and national security agencies, as well as overseeing AT&T’s work on the FirstNet nationwide public safety broadband network for first responders. Singer joined AT&T in 2015 aſter building a resume in information intelligence within the government and in the private sector. She served as the chief information officer for the National Reconnaissance Office, deputy CIO for the CIA and director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service for the State Department. An alumna of the University of West Florida, where she serves on its board, Singer also is a member of the International Spy Museum’s governing board. In 2021, AT&T’s public sector has inked some significant contracts, includ- ing a $725 million task order with the Department of Veterans Affairs and a $231 million Treasury contract to modernize both agencies’ data networks.
STU SHEA CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, PERATON INC., HERNDON
Shea, who started his career in national security by building some of the CIA’s earliest computer systems, says he’s in the middle of one of his biggest career challenges: integrating two recently acquired large businesses into Peraton. In May, the national security contractor completed its $7.1 billion, all-cash purchase of Chantilly-based Perspecta Inc., preceded by Peraton’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Northrop Grumman Corp.’s federal IT and mission support services business. Peraton’s workforce has grown from 3,500 workers last year to more than 24,000 employees this year, with revenues of $7 billion. In August Peraton also won a $979 million, five-year task order to support the U.S. Central Command’s information operations. “We have three companies with really long traditions and
history,” he says. “This will be a very different place because of that legacy.”
Shea, who previously oversaw the division of Science
Applications International Corp. into Leidos Holdings Inc. and a new SAIC, and also founded the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, said he expects to maintain and grow Peraton’s workforce while consolidating its office space. A graduate of the University of Kansas and State University
of New York at Albany, Shea is a five-time recipient of Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award, which recognizes top leaders in gov- ernment contracting.
CAREY A. SMITH PRESIDENT AND CEO, PARSONS CORP., CENTREVILLE
In April, Smith was tapped as the Centreville- based defense contractor’s new CEO, a promo- tion from her previous post as president and chief operating officer. She succeeds Charles “Chuck” Harrington, who retired aſter nearly four decades with the company. Smith joined Parsons in 2016 as president
of its federal solutions business, leading the acquisition and integration of four companies and helping take the company public in 2019. In January, Smith joined the company’s board of directors. Earlier in her career, Smith held several leadership roles within the defense and aerospace industry. She was president of the defense and space business unit at Honeywell and held several positions at Lockheed Martin, including vice president of technical services and president and CEO of the company’s Canadian operations.
Smith earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from
Ohio Northern University and her master’s degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University.
PERSON I ADMIRE: Linda P. Hudson, the former president and CEO of BAE Systems Inc. She was the first woman to lead a major defense contractor.
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