Category: Executive

Before Margarita Howard became the sole owner and CEO/president of HX5, she spent years inside the systems she would later work alongside as a contractor. That inside experience gave her a significant advantage when she founded HX5 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida in 2004, and it continues to inform how she runs the firm today, Read more

Government contracting rewards firms that treat compliance as a core operating discipline, not an administrative afterthought. Margarita Howard built HX5 on exactly that premise, and the Fort Walton Beach company has grown into a 1,000-plus-employee firm supporting the Department of Defense and NASA at 90 locations across the country. The Regulatory Reality of Federal Work Read more

Not every defense contractor CEO has worn the uniform. Margarita Howard has, and at HX5, that experience is woven into the company’s hiring strategy and culture. As a service-disabled Air Force veteran who now runs a government contracting firm with about 1,000 employees, Howard brings a perspective to veteran employment that goes beyond policy. From Read more

Margarita Howard, HX5’s chief architect of organizational development, has instituted a management philosophy centered on rigor, accountability and continuous improvement. Under her stewardship, the company has moved beyond conventional top-down directives to cultivate a measurable, employee-centered culture of excellence. Howard’s approach emphasizes clarity of purpose. At HX5, strategic objectives are translated into specific team goals Read more