David Messina, National Security EVP at Modern Technology Solutions Inc.

David Messina is the executive vice president of national security at Modern Technology Solutions Inc., a role that he has held for nearly four years. The EVP is also a Potomac Officers Club member.

Messina has over 40 years of experience in managing national security and government technology tasks. He is also knowledgeable in business development, program management and strategy formulation.

Prior to assuming his current leadership role, he was a principal consultant at Deep Water Point. In this role, Messina performed strategy and business development work for intelligence and counterterrorism clients, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The industry veteran was a director at Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 2016. At the aerospace company, he performed strategic planning, program management, customer relations, systems integration and contract negotiation tasks.

Messina started his career in 1978 as a software analyst at chemicals company DuPont.

The MTSI executive holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and statistics from the University of Delaware.

MTSI is a fully employee-owned engineering services and technology solutions company that offers test and evaluation, modeling and simulation and systems engineering services to defense, intelligence, federal civilian and commercial customers. It is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and has multiple offices across the U.S.