The 4×24 Executive Leadership Series is a hallmark forum for top-tier GovCon executives and Wash100 Award winners seeking meaningful connections and strategic growth opportunities. Designed exclusively for senior-level leaders, the program centers on elite, invitation-only dinners—comprising networking cocktail hours, seated meals and intimate roundtable discussions with government decision-makers under Chatham House rules—which fosters candid, high-value dialogue.
What distinguishes the Wash100 Award is its forward-thinking approach—acknowledging individuals not only for their present accomplishments, but also for their expected influence in the upcoming year. Established in 2014 by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, the Wash100 Award honors those who demonstrate excellence in leadership, strategic innovation and developing transformative solutions in support of the nation’s most vital missions.
Consequently, the 4×24 Executive Leadership Series serves as a fitting community for these visionary leaders. Are you a significant senior-level executive of impact? Would you be interested in forming and sustaining essential executive relationships with government leaders and peers at prominent GovCon firms such as Booz Allen, CACI and BAE Systems? Discover on our website how the 4×24 Executive Leadership Series can enhance your profile and career.
This is the third part of an ongoing series. Read more to learn about another collection of esteemed 4×24 members who have earned Wash100 Awards. Check out the first two installments in this series.
Al Whitmore
BAE Systems
2018–2023, 2025
Whitmore has accumulated a whopping seven Wash100 awards, cementing his place as one of the most impactful executives in GovCon. He has led BAE Systems to a number of high-profile contract awards, including a $347 million deal with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The company, for this award, is sustaining and modernizing NGA’s GEOINT library, bolstering geospatial analysis for intelligence and defense missions.
Whitmore has also contributed to BAE Systems’ work in creating advanced combat vehicle solutions. The company in December signed contracts totaling roughly $2.5 billion with both Denmark and Sweden to develop new CV90 combat vehicles and provide their forces with increased situational awareness and better protection, mobility and lethality.
Andy Green
HII Mission Technologies
2018, 2020–2025
Green has earned an eye-popping seven Wash100 awards through driving strategic growth at HII Mission Technologies with big contract wins and innovative business realignment efforts. He positioned HII Mission Technologies’ business for improved long-term health by combining its six operational groups into four: global security, all-domain operations, uncrewed systems and warfare systems.
Green guided HII Mission Technologies to an impressive contract award in 2024 when the company landed a $6.5 billion contract from the Air Force for electronic warfare engineering and technical services. He also led the company to another big-time contract from DOD when it awarded HII Mission Technologies a $458 million task order to help modernize its IT and communications networks.
Carey Smith
Parsons
2017, 2018, 2021–2025
Smith has established herself as one of the most influential GovCon executives with seven Wash100 Awards for her transformative leadership at Parsons. Smith’s guidance of Parsons’ acquisition of BlackSignal Technologies in 2024 spotlighted her strategy to strengthen and diversify the company’s offerings in advanced solutions to government agencies.
She also guided Parsons’ expansion in defense through significant contract awards. One of which was a spot on a $4 billion Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract, which also positioned Parsons as a trusted partner for consequential federal missions.
DeEtte Gray
CACI
2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021–2025
Gray has tallied a monumental nine Wash100 Awards through leadership positioning CACI as a consequential contractor in intelligence, defense and federal civilian missions. As CACI’s president of U.S. operations, Gray led the company to market-leading contract wins, including a task order from the Army that could be worth $416 million to provide radio frequency systems for signals intelligence missions.
CACI, under Gray’s leadership, expanded its software-defined offerings in electronic warfare and signals intelligence by acquiring Azure Summit Technology in 2024. The transaction also expanded CACI’s capabilities into maritime and airborne platforms.
The 4×24 Leadership Series is the most prestigious program available through Executive Mosaic, the premier GovCon media and networking organization in the national capital region. This series brings together influential leaders from targeted GovCon domains—including AI, cloud, 5G and others—to connect and share their thoughts at exclusive dinners held under the Chatham House rule. More than just a company-sponsored advantage, 4×24 fosters enduring professional connections. For further information on how 4×24 can boost your GovCon career, please explore the 4×24 website.
Jonathan Moneymaker
BlueHalo
2022
Moneymaker made his debut in the prestigious ranks of Wash100 Award winners in 2022 for guiding BlueHalo to impressive growth in 2021 through strategic acquisitions. BlueHalo’s addition of Citadel Defense added cutting-edge counter-uncrewed aerial system, or cUAS, technology to complement its perimeter security and directed energy portfolio.
Additionally, BlueHalo’s addition of Asymmetrik in 2021 expanded its signal intelligence and cybersecurity portfolio and improved its offerings in AI and machine learning applications for federated search and blockchain analytics.
The accomplishments didn’t end there as BlueHalo in 2022 received an AI test and evaluation blanket purchase agreement from DOD. This was to test AI-enabled communication by U.S. warfighters in conflict using interface applications such as image analysis and voice to text. The Army also awarded BlueHalo a contract to develop an AI and machine learning-powered small UAS to enhance sensor performance and reduce warfighters’ cognitive workload.
PV Puvvada
Unisys
2014, 2016–2020
Puvvada’s six Wash100 Awards solidifies his position as one of the top executives in GovCon. Under his leadership, Unisys secured major contracts totaling $252 million in March 2019 from the Census Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and VA—enabling secure IT infrastructure, the adoption of CloudForte solutions and cloud advisory services to accelerate digital transformation
Puvvada’s strategic acumen was further demonstrated in February 2020 when SAIC agreed to acquire Unisys’s federal business unit in a $1.2 billion cash deal—broadening SAIC’s capabilities in modernization, cloud migration and managed services. Puvvada is now CEO of NetImpact Strategies.
Rob Carey
Department of Defense
2014
Carey was inducted into the hallowed halls of Wash100 Award winners in 2024 through his work as DOD’s principal deputy chief information officer, leading the Pentagon’s push to standardize and consolidate its enterprise IT infrastructure and cybersecurity posture.
Carey strategized a DOD plan to implement a mobile device management system. He also assembled private industry and government leaders to roll out the joint information environment architecture, creating standards for the military services to pursue as they perform a technology refresh.
Carey became DOD’s principal deputy CIO after spending four years as the Navy’s CIO, where he promoted technology-related transformation efforts and new enterprise services. Carey is now the Cloudera Government Solutions vice president for Navy and Marine Corps programs.
Steve Escaravage
Booz Allen
2022–2025
Escavarage has solidified himself as one of the most impactful GovCon leaders through his four Wash100 Awards. Under his leadership, Booz Allen in 2024 entered into a partnership with L3Harris to accelerate the creation and delivery of the Distributed Battle Management Node Tactical Operations Center-Light, or TOC-L, prototype. This promises to rapidly enable DOD’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, system.
Escaravage guided Booz Allen’s strategic investment in Second Front Systems, a software firm that develops the Game Warden DevSecOps platform. This enables small businesses and technology providers to consolidate the delivery of services and products to federal clients. He also openly advocated for DOD’s support of dual-use technology companies, which Escaravage believes could speed up emerging technology development and ensure DOD keeps its edge against near-peer adversaries.
Thomas Bell
Leidos
2024–2025
Bell earned his second consecutive Wash100 Award in 2025 through major contract awards across healthcare, transportation security and defense. Leidos, under his guidance, landed a $2.6 billion award with the Transportation Security Administration for integrated logistics support services for the maintenance of airport and government-designated facility checkpoint screening equipment.
Another significant award was a $670 million contract from the Army for the development of the common-hypersonic glide body and thermal protection system. Bell also led Leidos to a $327 million contract with the National Institutes of Health for agile software development and design support for its ERA enterprise-wide grants management platform.
