Executive Moves at Textron, DMI, Teledyne FLIR, the OMB, and Peraton
Shannon Hines, former staff director for the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been named Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) upcoming senior vice president of government affairs and Washington operations.
Textron said Tuesday she will oversee various government affairs activities, with a focus on connecting with federal agencies, legislative and executive offices and industry associations.
Rocky Thurston, former head of Peraton‘s citizen security and public services sector, has been named chief operating officer at Bethesda, Maryland-based digital services provider DMI
Thurston brings his more than two decades of industry experience in business development, capture management, merger-and-acquisition areas to a role responsible for driving DMI’s federal and commercial market growth strategy, the company said Wednesday.
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JihFen Lei, general manager of the surveillance group at Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY), has been appointed executive vice president for the defense business under the company’s Teledyne FLIR subsidiary.
She will lead the newly rebranded segment that consolidates the surveillance and unmanned and integrated solutions units of the sensor provider, Teledyne said Tuesday.
Drew Myklegard, most recently executive director of product engineering at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Eileen Vidrine, chief data officer at the Department of the Air Force, have joined the Office of Management and Budget to take on new roles within the office of the federal chief information officer, GovCIO Media & Research reported Friday.
Myklegard will serve as associate deputy federal CIO and Vidrine will assume the role of senior strategic adviser for data.
Dan Ostrosky, formerly of Banbury Private Capital, has been named Peraton’s senior vice president and chief procurement officer. He will report to Jim Winner, the company’s vice president and chief legal officer.
Ostrosky is expected to leverage 30 years of experience in manufacturing and supply chain operations to take on executive leadership for all aspects of the procurement organization, such as strategic sourcing and subcontractor management, the Herndon, Virginia-based company announced Tuesday.