Archive for the ‘Company News’ Category

May 2008

The SPECTRUM Group proudly announces the expansion of its consulting capabilities in defense and international security, homeland security, energy, manpower and training, congressional relations, and business development with the arrival of its newest members. 

Major General Daniel Dick (USAF, Ret.) is an expert in aerospace/joint operations, military command and control, large-scale project management, and financial management.  His military career included Commander of the 13th Air Force, the largest and most complex Air Force composite wing based at 11 operating locations throughout the Arabian Peninsula; and Joint Forces Command Director of Requirements and Integration. He also has extensive experience in the defense industry market, where he managed major business development opportunities for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems and L-3 Communications.

Colonel Mary Fuller (USA, Ret.) has over 30 years of military and business experience in acquisition, program management, information technology, and business development, marketing and leadership.  Her Army career highlights include Chief of Staff/Senior Executive Assistant for the Army Acquisition Executive/Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology; Director, Army Acquisition Support Center; and Project Manager, Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) She has also served as President of her own consulting firm.

Colonel Stephen Frankiewicz (USA Ret.) has extensive experience in Federal, State and local homeland security and energy policy and operations. He has served in numerous Department of Energy national laboratories and facilities, including Livermore, Yucca Mountain, Los Alamos, Sandia, Hanford and Brookhaven, and has managed technology-oriented projects for Federal Departments as a contractor since 1989. He has served as Vice President and General Manager of EF&G Defense Materials operating the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal facility and later as Principal, Frankiewicz & Associates. He is an expert in technical project management and technology business development. 

Rear Admiral Mack Gaston (USN, Ret.) brings extensive expertise in defense, manpower and training, and business development. His distinguished Navy career included serving as Base Commander of the Naval Training Base at Great Lakes, Illinois; Commander of the Defense Nuclear Agency, Nuclear Test Organization; member of the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group; and Director of Manpower and Training Requirements for surface ships for the Chief of Naval Operations. RADM Gaston has also held senior management positions with Waste Management, Inc. and Electronic Data Systems.

Colonel Michael Hadley (USA, Ret.) joins The SPECTRUM Group as part of the Congressional Relations and Defense Team after completing a 23 year career with the Army. He has served in command and staff assignments in aviation, strategic planning and legislative affairs, including assignments as Principal Deputy for Reserve Affairs in the Army Office of Chief of Legislative Liaison and House Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Legislative Affairs. Col. Hadley has worked closely with Congress on aviation system procurement, research and development, Army operations and maintenance, and Army National Guard and Reserve programs.
Colonel Richard G. (Dick) Hellier (USAF, Ret.) has almost 29 years of experience in defense and aerospace programs, including service as Deputy Director of Safety and Inspections, Secretary of the Air Force/Inspector General; Commander, 366th Fighter Wing, Tactical Air Command; and Deputy Director, Air Force Issues Team, Secretary of the Air Force, Legislative Liaison. His business development experience includes fifteen years with United Technologies Corporation and Pratt & Whitney, where he served as director of Air Force Programs, responsible for marketing and liaison with U.S. government and embassies of major international customers in the Washington, DC area.
Admiral Joseph Lopez (USN, Ret.) completed a distinguished 40 year career in the Navy culminating is his assignment as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe and Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe. He also served as the Commander of the NATO’s Peace Implementation Forces in Bosnia- Herzegovina; Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments); and commanded the U.S. SIXTH Fleet and NATO’s Striking and Support Forces, Southern Europe. Following retirement, Admiral Lopez served as Chief Operating Officer of Brown and Root Services and as Senior Vice President of Kellogg, Brown and Root. He brings extensive expertise in defense, international security, and business operations.
Major General Terry Scherling (USAF) is currently the Special Assistant to the Chief, National Guard Bureau (NGB). As the former Director of the Joint Staff, NGB, she was responsible for the development of all policies, programs and plans for domestic military operations. Her career highlights include Deputy Director Antiterrorism/Homeland Defense, Operations Directorate, Joint Staff at the Pentagon, serving as the Principal Military Advisor to the Chairman, JCS and Defense Secretary for domestic military operations. She established the Air Force Directorate of Homeland Security following 9/11. Major General Scherling has extensive experience in force protection, critical infrastructure, continuity operations, and antiterrorism/ counterterrorism, and has served as a private consultant on homeland security issues.

The combined knowledge and experience of our newest members will further enable The SPECTRUM Group to provide the best strategies and solutions to our clients in both the public and private sectors.

April 2008

The SPECTRUM Group continues to expand its consulting services, most recently in the areas of information technology, science education, and aviation security, with the recent addition of its newest members Mr. William Mayfield, Ms. Cyndy Mickevicius and Captain Mark Weiss.

Mr. William T. Mayfield has had a distinguished career in naval surface warfare, anti-air warfare, command and control, Navy personnel management systems, information system management, program management, defense analyses, information security, information warfare, net-centric systems concepts, and enterprise information architectures. He has also served as an IT expert for the Institute for Defense Analysis, where he received the Gen. Andrew J. Goodpasture Award for the body of research he performed in Information Security.

Ms. Cyndy Mickevicius brings over twenty years of experience in science research and science education to The SPECTRUM Group Youth Programs Division, with a main emphasis on the DoD STARBASE program. STARBASE is a nationally based educational program that raises the interest and improves the knowledge and skills of youth in the areas of math, science, and technology. In recent years she has worked as a Senior Education Associate at the American Chemical Society to develop and establish programs for high school students and teachers throughout the nation.

Captain Mark Weiss brings extensive experience in the aviation industry, especially in aviation and transportation security. His distinguished career as a pilot with American Airlines included service on the Industry Panel of the Federal Air Marshal Service, the Cargo Working Group of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and the American Airlines Joint Security Committee. Captain Weiss made significant contributions to the Security Incident Reporting System with NASA, the Common Strategy for the Transportation Security Administration, and the Crew Member Self Defense Training Program. His expertise has been enlisted to respond to critical security situations worldwide.

The combined knowledge and experience of our newest members will further enable The SPECTRUM Group to provide the best strategies and solutions to our clients in both the public and private sectors.

The SPECTRUM Group continues to expand its consulting services with the recent addition of its newest members Lt. General John S. Caldwell, Jr., USA (Ret.), Mr. Mark Flavin, Lt. General Henry “Tom” Glisson, USA (Ret.), Mr. Joseph Hollis, Lt. General Donald Lionetti, USA (Ret.), and Mr. Walter S. Kulbacki.

Lt. General John S. Caldwell, Jr., USA (Ret.), is the newest addition to The SPECTRUM Group and will be the Vice President for Army Programs. He joined QSS Group, Inc. in July 2004, as Senior Vice President for Defense Programs. General Caldwell’s last active duty assignment was Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology). In that capacity, he was responsible to the Assistant Secretary for the direction and oversight of the Army’s Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA) programs. He was also Director of the Army Acquisition Workforce. He was instrumental in formulating the acquisition programs that provided dominant war fighting capability and pioneered the transformation of the Army in the early 21st century. Previous assignments included: Commanding General of the US Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM; Deputy Chief of Staff, Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA), Army Materiel Command (AMC); Director of the Army Digitization Office; and Project Manager, Abrams Tank System.

Mr. Mark Flavin brings extensive experience in business development, acquisition, process engineering, merger integration, and government affairs. His 26 year Army career culminated in serving as the Director of Contract Operations, Army Material Command. He brings additional private sector experience as the former Senior Vice President for Government Operations, Armor Holdings Aerospace & Defense, and also served as Director for Government Operations with AM General Corporation.

Lt. General Henry “Tom” Glisson, USA (Ret.), a nationally recognized logistics executive, completed a 35 year Army career as Director, Defense Logistics Agency and also served as the 44th Quartermaster General of the Army and Commanding General, U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command. His private sector experience includes serving as Director, Pacific Operations, BearingPoint Inc. and Managing Director for Bearing Point consulting services to Army clients in the U.S. and Europe.

Mr. Joseph Hollis brings expertise in defense and public affairs, completing his Army service as Director of Operations for the Armed Forces Information Service. He has also served for 20 years as the Director of Industry Affairs for the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), and offers extensive experience in government and industry relations.

Lt. General Donald Lionetti USA (Ret.), is a national security consultant in ground based air and missile defense, space applications in support of terrestrial military operations, and related research, technology, and acquisition,. His Army career included assignments as Commanding General, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; and Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center, Ft. Bliss. He has also served as Vice President, Air Missile Defense Systems for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control – Orlando, and as Chairman of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) International Board of Directors.

Mr. Walter S. Kulbacki has a very strong strategic, operational, and technical background in the information technology, software and automation areas and has led and managed large Army, DOD and commercial organizations. Over the past decade in the commercial sector, he, as a Vice President and Director, has been responsible for winning over $5 Billion in DOD and Federal government contracts.

Mr. Kulbacki is a retired senior level Army officer whose career has included key high level command, leadership, program management, and staff assignments within the Army, the Joint Staff, and the Department of Defense to include the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) where he directed the planning, resources, and operations of DOD’s worldwide network.

The combined knowledge and experience of our newest members will further enable The SPECTRUM Group to provide the best strategies and solutions to clients in both the public and private sectors.

Washington, D.C. (Aug. 9, 2007) - The SPECTRUM Group, an Alexandria based consulting firm, announced today that it is forming a new Government Solutions Division to provide government agencies access to industry and military experts as they tackle difficult or emerging problems.

Well known for their consulting services to companies and organizations that are unfamiliar with the way government does business, The SPECTRUM Group has grown to more than 80 associates in the last few years. More than half of SPECTRUM’s associates are former admirals and generals from all the military departments with the rest comprised of former political appointees, corporate officers, legislative experts and career foreign service members.

Thomas J. Campbell, President of DC Capital Partners, a private equity investment company, that recently purchased a controlling interest in The SPECTRUM Group said, “This is the strongest concentration of government subject matter experts within one company that I have ever seen. Their combined expertise crosses virtually every discipline imaginable from acquisition to warfighting to homeland defense” It was Campbell’s observation that prompted the establishment of the new Government Solutions Division.

“DC Capital recommended that SPECTRUM explore expanding its horizons by pursuing contracts with government agencies that would clearly benefit from our expertise,” said Steve Loftus, Chairman of The SPECTRUM Group. “To date, our focus has been mid-level companies that want to do business with the government but are unfamiliar with the sometimes cumbersome process. We believe that expanding our services to help provide solutions to transformational and other issues within government agencies will benefit both the public and private sector.”

The Government Solutions Division’s business model will include matching its extensive bank of subject matter experts with other consulting groups and key industry players by way of strategic alliances and teaming agreements.

The SPECTRUM Group is pleased to present its brand new web site to all of our current, former and prospective clients. The entire design has been modified and reflects the growth and advancement of the SPECTRUM Group in recent years. We’ve made it easy for you to find out what we do and how we do it.

You’ll also enjoy easier access to our newly created and better-organized biography pages. On the individual bio pages, you’ll find out more about the people that make up The SPECTRUM Group and learn about the experience of the teams that you could be working with. Please feel free to contact us with any comments or questions about our new web site or about our services in general.

DC Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm whose headquarters are in Washington DC, has just acquired a controlling interest in The SPECTRUM Group. The firm has always focused on investing in the federal and defense sectors, and eyed The SPECTRUM Group as a great investment because of it’s extensive network of contacts, high-levels of expertise and it’s reputation as one of the Washington DC area’s most respected consulting firms. Here’s what Thomas J. Cambell, President of DC Capital Partners, had to say about the acquisition:

“The members of The SPECTRUM Group are among the most knowledgeable subject matter experts in Washington with unparalleled experience and insight. They will clearly enhance the overall effectiveness of DC Capital Partners toward our objective of achieving superior investment returns. Given their extensive network of contacts, both in and out of government, and in depth expertise in our targeted sector, we believe they will complement our investment activities”.

We’re excited to be able to expand our capabilities and reach both in terms of services and clients. Furthermore, we’re planning on expanding our recently launched Government Solutions division, in which we will provide our signature services directly to the government. Chairman of The SPECTRUM Group, Vice Admiral Steve Loftus, said that “partnering with DC Capital has expanded those opportunities and we are confident that our relationship will have a positive impact on the firm’s growth.”