Related Research Articles
The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity,alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity,real assets,and private credit. It is one of the largest mega-funds in the world. In 2015,Carlyle was the world's largest private equity firm by capital raised over the previous five years,according to the PEI 300 index. In the 2023 ranking however,it had slipped to fifth place.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 95,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion,it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military technology providers. The firm ranks No. 101 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations.
Frank Charles Carlucci III was an American politician who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. He was the first Italian American to serve in that position.
Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States named after inventor Charles Litton Sr.
Vought was the name of several related American aerospace firms. These have included,in the past,Lewis and Vought Corporation,Chance Vought,Vought-Sikorsky,LTV Aerospace,Vought Aircraft Companies,and Vought Aircraft Industries.
Sabre Corporation is a travel technology company based in Southlake,Texas. It is the largest global distribution systems provider for air bookings in North America. American Airlines founded the company in 1960,and it was spun off in 2000.
James Gerard Roche is an American politician. He served as the 20th Secretary of the Air Force,serving from January 20,2001 to January 20,2005. Prior to serving as secretary,Roche served in the United States Navy for 23 years,and as an executive with Northrop Grumman.
William Lockhart Ball III is an American former government official and political appointee. He held senior posts in the Reagan Administration,beginning as an Assistant Secretary of State under George Shultz in 1985. He moved to the White House staff in 1986 as President Reagan's chief lobbyist and liaison to Congress. After two years in that capacity,he was nominated by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate to become the 67th Secretary of the Navy in 1988.
Donald Charles Winter is an American politician and businessman who served as United States Secretary of the Navy. A former top executive of TRW,Aerospace &Defense,he was nominated in 2005 by President George W. Bush,confirmed by the United States Senate,and took the oath of office on January 3,2006. In January 2009 Defense Secretary Robert Gates requested that Winter remain in office until President Obama picked his successor on March 13,2009. He resigned on March 13.
The Vinnell Corporation is an international private military company based in Herndon,Virginia,United States,specializing in military training,logistics,and support in the form of weapon systems maintenance and management consultancy. Vinnell Corporation is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. They are also party to other joint-venture companies,e.g. Vinnell-Brown &Root (VBR). The Vinnell Corporation was mentioned in Fahrenheit 9/11 for its connections to the Carlyle Group,George W. Bush,and the Saudi Royal family.
Aulana Louise Peters is a retired partner at the law firm of Gibson,Dunn &Crutcher LLP,where she was active partner from 1980 to 1984 and from 1988 to 2000.
John Thomas Chain Jr. was a U.S. Air Force general. He was also a director of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,ConAgra Foods,Inc.,and Kemper Insurance Co.,as well as holding other corporate offices.
Charles H. Noski was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wells Fargo &Company from March 2020 to August 2021. He previously held a variety of positions,including the position of CFO at AT&T,Bank of America,and Northrop Grumman,as well as the positions of director and chairman of the audit committee of Microsoft.
Manufacturing in Mexico grew rapidly in the late 1960s with the end of the US farm labor agreement known as the bracero program. This sent many unskilled farm laborers back into the Northern border region with no source of income. As a result,the US and Mexican governments agreed to The Border Industrialization Program,which permitted US companies to assemble product in Mexico using raw materials and components from the US with reduced duties. The Border Industrialization Program became known popularly as The Maquiladora Program or shortened to The Maquila Program.
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a Washington,D.C. based think tank founded in 2007 by Michèle Flournoy,board member of military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton,and Kurt M. Campbell,coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs in the Biden Administration. Funded by Northrop Grumman,dozens of military contractors,Chevron,Amazon,Google and other large corporations,CNAS specializes in United States national security issues,including terrorism,irregular warfare,the future of the U.S. military,the emergence of Asia as a global power center,war games pitting the US against the People's Republic of China and the national security implications of natural resource consumption.
Braddock,Dunn &McDonald,later known as BDM,then BDM International,was a technical services firm founded in 1959 in New York City. Its founders were Dr. Joseph V. Braddock,Dr. Bernard J. Dunn,and Dr. Daniel F. McDonald,who each received a PhD from Fordham University in the Bronx,New York. In 1997,TRW purchased BDM,and in 2002 Northrop Grumman bought TRW.
David Marchick is an American attorney,businessman,academic,and diplomat who serves as dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University. He previously served as chief operating officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation during the first year of the Biden administration. He previously served as director of the Center for Presidential Transition,as a senior executive at The Carlyle Group and in four departments in the Clinton administration. He is the co-author of the book,"The Peaceful Transfer of Power:An Oral History of America's Presidential Transitions",published by UVA press.
Rajkumar Chellaraj is the CFO and administrative dean at the Stanford Business School,Stanford University. Concurrently,he was also the chief operating officer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford Seed program with primary focus in Africa and India from 2015 to 2017. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Administration at the US State Department from 2006 to 2009 under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Currently,he serves as chairman of the board of Wellbore Integrity Solutions,a global oilfield services provider,a portfolio company of private equity firm Rhône Group. He also serves on the Board of Wahoo Fitness,a fitness technology company. In addition,he was an advisor and consultant to United Nations leadership in operations and management. Previously,he served on the board of GardaWorld from 2017 to 2019,a Canadian private security firm. From 2015 to 2018,he also served as chairman of the board of RhythmOne,a publicly traded digital advertising company.
Jon David Glassman is a former U.S. State Department official. He is best known for having authored the "White Paper" on Communist intervention in El Salvador published by the U.S. State Department in 1981. Glassman also served as Deputy National Security Advisor for former Vice President Dan Quayle.
Samantha Erin Vinograd is an American government official and foreign policy commentator who has served as the assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention in the Department of Homeland Security since 2022.
References
- ↑ Pennsylvania. Dept. of General Services; Pennsylvania. Bureau of Publications; Pennsylvania. Dept. of Property and Supplies (1971). The Pennsylvania Manual. Vol. 100. Department of General Services. ISSN 0275-8814 . Retrieved 2015-02-27.