The Wash100 Award is more than just a recognition—it’s a spotlight on the visionaries driving the future of government and industry. Increasingly, its winners are the architects of America’s AI revolution, harnessing cutting-edge technology to solve problems once thought impossible.
These leaders aren’t dabbling in AI—they’re building battlefield-ready autonomous systems, deploying advanced analytics that uncover threats in seconds and designing platforms that turn oceans of data into decisive action. From defense and intelligence to healthcare and infrastructure, Wash100 honorees are proving that AI is the next strategic high ground. Their innovations don’t just set trends—they redefine what’s possible.
About the AI GovCon Titans
Wash100 Award winners who are advancing AI stand at the intersection of innovation and national priorities. Their inclusion on this prestigious list reflects not only their current influence, but also their capacity to steer the AI-driven transformations shaping the future. This honor recognizes leaders who use AI to boost efficiency, sharpen decision-making and strengthen technological capabilities across the most critical sectors.
Established in 2014 by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, the Wash100 Award celebrates executives who excel in innovation, leadership and delivering mission-critical solutions. In AI, these honorees are driving groundbreaking projects, leading pivotal initiatives and evolving their organizations to meet—and anticipate—the demands of the AI era, with some having built their enterprises on AI and machine learning from the very beginning.
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Candice Ling
Microsoft
2024, 2025
Ling earned her two Wash100 Awards in 2024 and 2025 for responding to federal agency demands to securely and responsibly explore the benefits of AI for their missions. Microsoft in February 2024 added its Azure OpenAI service to its Azure Government cloud services system.
The company used generative AI to accelerate the writing and editing of requests for proposals for government agencies. Federal customers can use Azure Open AI to identify anomalies in financial documents and stop fraud. Azure OpenAI was also developed to assistant case workers in managing their workloads.
Microsoft also introduced AI to its Integrated Visual Augmentation System headsets developed for the U.S. Army. Teaming with Anduril Industries, the partnership integrates Anduril’s Lattice, which uses AI open software to manage unmanned aircraft systems or detect airborne threats, into the IVAS.
Shubhi Mishra
Raft
2024, 2025
Mishra has won back-to-back Wash100 Awards in 2024 and 2025 by positioning Raft as a leader in advanced AI services for federal customers. The company, which she founded, issued in January an updated version of the Raft Data Platform with a goal of helping the DOD better manage and organize its data. Harnessing AI, the Raft Data Platform allows the fast processing and in-depth analysis required by the large amounts of information passing through the Pentagon.
Raft in May demonstrated its StarSage agentic AI battle management system during the U.S. Air Force’s Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH. Mishra described this as a significant step forward in rapidly-deploying AI-powered battle management systems across the USAF.
Additionally, Raft demonstrated during DASH its [R] AI Mission System, or [R] AIMS. This is a lightweight AI platform that combines AI agents, data and limited and large LLMs into a single ecosystem.
Mark Peters
MITRE
2025
Peters made his debut among Wash100 Award winners in 2025 for developing new tools leveraging AI to improve federal missions such as bolstering cybersecurity and strengthening weather forecasting. Mitre under his leadership developed its Federal AI Sandbox, a supercomputer leveraging the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD full-stack data center platform. This $20 million system will provide a secure computing environment for federal customers to prototype, experiment and deliver advanced AI services.
MITRE, under Peters’ guidance, announced in March that it will team with NVIDIA to advance AI-native wireless networks, including for 6G. The team will target a ground-up redesign of wireless infrastructure and networks, using and enabling AI advancements in possible applications including agentic network organization and security, dynamic spectrum-sharing and integrated communications and sensing.
Matt Tait
MANTECH
2023–2025
Tait has landed three straight Wash100 Awards in part for his long experience in supporting federal customers in AI while innovating new ways for them to use the technology. One example is how U.S. Customs and Border Protection used AI to stop cross-border smuggling of illegal drugs.
MANTECH, under Tait, developed its AI Turbocharger methodology to lay the groundwork for federal agencies to have success each step of the way. It workshops the biggest mission challenges and how AI can help.
Then MANTECH evaluates areas where AI efforts get stuck if not executed properly. These include infrastructure and human workflow processes and data readiness and availability, among others. The company then strategizes a phased AI pathway, with checkpoints at important stages, with the end result being an operational AI system.
Doug Wagoner
LMI
2015, 2021–2025
Wagoner has earned a whopping six Wash100 Awards through innovative mergers and acquisitions, contract wins and pushes into AI. LMI in 2024 released its LIGER, a generative AI system developed to assist federal agencies in streamlining operations. It also provides them with actionable insights and suggestions to help them tackle complex challenges. LIGER has been delivered to multiple high profile customers, including the U.S. Army.
LIGER evolved from a problem LMI was asked to solve with the world’s most expensive weapon system: the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter. This problem was so serious that it grounded the entire fleet.
It spurred LMI to develop a large language model for logistics, which LMI knows very well. The U.S. Army now has an enterprise license for LIGER and is using it as part of a generative AI pilot program.
Bill Webner
Allocore
2024, 2025
Webner earned his second consecutive Wash100 Award in 2025 for leading multiple key AI initiatives. Allocore, under his leadership as Summit Technology Group, introduced AI capabilities for its cloud-based federal loans and grant programs. This demonstrated the company’s investments in AI and machine learning to automate and enable loan servicing, fraud detection and prevention, bolster security and accelerate the complex processes that come with federal fund disbursement initiatives.
Webner also integrated AI capabilities into its Unified Fraud Platform, or UFP, which is designed to secure federal lending and grant programs. This helps government loan and grant programs accelerate their operations, work more securely and with greater accuracy. The UFP uses AI to identify inconsistencies in the verification of personally-identifiable information, double-checking applicant information and developing a fraud risk score.
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