After over four decades in GovCon, aerospace and defense tech executive Ed Swallow is leaving the operator’s grind and turning that career into a usable playbook, not a nostalgia lap. He’s still in the room — just no longer living inside the late-night proposal or operations cycle. “Being a strategic advisor, a mentor, a coach is very important to me,”…

Tom White was never the guy obsessing over closing the deal. While selling some of the first multiuser computing systems to the U.S. Army in Germany in the 1990s, he kept drifting toward the harder, slower work — building solutions, earning trust, making things fit. Three decades later, as senior director of partnerships at Chainguard, that instinct influences everything he…

FTI Defense has appointed Matt Salter as chief growth officer. ‍“FTI Defense is delighted to welcome Matt Salter to our senior executive team as Chief Growth Officer,” said Jose Hidalgo, FTI Defense CEO “Matt’s skills and experience will be instrumental in accelerating the adoption of FTI’s mission-aware, AI-powered technologies and expertise to help our warfighters make faster and better mission…