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Nazzic Keene to lead SAIC as Tony Moraco announces retirement

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March 15, 2019 at 5:48 p.m. EDT
Nazzic Keene joined SAIC in 2012 and rose through the ranks to become chief operating officer. She is to become chief executive when long-time CEO Tony Moraco retires. (Photographer: James Ward/(James Ward))

The top job at one of the Washington area’s most influential government services companies will soon change hands, as chief executive Tony Moraco prepares to hand the reigns to the company’s second-in-command, chief operating officer Nazzic Keene.

Moraco will retire as of July 31, the company said in an announcement, capping a six-year run as chief executive. Moraco became CEO in 2013 and saw the company through a period of financial and political turmoil, as federal defense spending cuts from the sequestration process hamstrung numerous government services firms for years.