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2005 Press Release
Westar Announces Management Upgrades
January 18, 2005 St. Louis, MO. The Board of Directors of Westar is pleased to confirm the following new leadership positions in Westar Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc.
Garrett Martz, the former CEO of ELMCO, Inc., which was acquired by Westar in 2004, has been appointed Executive Vice President and COO. According to Rob Topping, CEO, "Garrett brings a great perspective to the business and has my confidence and that of our Board. He created a great business in record time, and has a top-notch team of professionals supporting him, for whom we have great hopes." Randy Tieszen, formerly Westar's VP of Strategic Programs, has been appointed Executive Vice President, Aviation Programs, to lead Westar's $100 million dollar business in that area. John Irby, has been appointed Executive Vice President, Space and Missile Systems, one of the fastest growing areas and containing nearly all of the prior ELMCO's business supporting the Missile Defense Agency, NASA, the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, and numerous other agencies with special programs of national importance. According to Garrett Martz, "ELMCO made the Inc. Fast 50 List twice because of growth in John's area, he's a great leader and fine technologist." Jim Williford has been appointed Executive Vice President of the National Capital Region operations, and has responsibility for the management and growth of Westar's joint program operations from his office in Crystal City.
Westar is a leading technology services provider to defense, space, and security customers around the world. As a supplier to the US Department of Defense and coalition and allied nations, Westar performs rapid technology insertion, defense systems architecture simulation and design, conducts interoperability analysis, systems integration, engineering and programmatic support, and develops and deploys logistics software. By providing a full range of engineering and consulting services Westar completes broad-based and large scale multidisciplinary projects that deliver improved readiness and lower operating costs to its customers. Westar has 1000 technology professionals in St. Louis MO, Washington D.C., Huntsville AL, Ft. Hood TX and Ft. Campbell KY and at numerous other locations in the US and around the world.
QinetiQ (pronounced ki’ ne tik as in ‘kinetic energy’)
is a leading global defense technology and security company. Founded in
2001, QinetiQ today has grown internationally, with around 11,500 employees
in the UK and US, many of them internationally acclaimed experts, providing
government and commercial customers sophisticated resources to create,
evaluate, test, and deliver technology-based services, solutions and products.
In 2004, it acquired Westar Aerospace & Defense Group and Foster-Miller,
Inc. In 2005, QinetiQ also announced its signing of purchase agreements
with Apogen Technologies and Belgian firm Verhaert. These transactions
are expected to close later this year. Visit www.QinetiQ.com for further
information.