Chris Owen has been elevated to the role of vice president of defense application development and networking at Peraton, the executive announced on LinkedIn Saturday.
Prior to his promotion, Owen was Peraton’s senior director for the U.S. Air Force and Army.
Owen was with Perspecta when it was acquired by Veritas Capital and then combined with Peraton. He served as senior program director responsible for some of the company’s Air Force contracts, overseeing multiple teams tasked with managing Network as a Service, Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, Electronic Warfare contracts and other programs for the Department of the Air Force.
Before joining Perspecta, Owen worked at AT&T (NYSE: T) for more than 12 years. He was associate director for government, senior tech project manager, transition manager, bureau service manager and director.
Some of his responsibilities at AT&T included spearheading the growth of commercial and innovative offerings to the Air Force, supervising large global enterprise deployments and commercial delivery models and serving as the “as-a-service” subject matter expert within the company’s Defense organization.