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UHF Lead Mech

09/05/13 12:28 PM

#8266 RE: Giovanni #8265

Maybe it's a retainer?

Don't shoot the messenger.....I found this interesting nothing more nothing less.

UHF Lead Mech

09/05/13 7:51 PM

#8270 RE: Giovanni #8265

Here's what $10,000 will buy ya. Also the company spent $90,000 for lobbyist in 2010.

Paul F. McHale, Jr. (born July 26, 1950) is an American politician. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. Additionally, from 1993 to 1999, he represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. In 1992, McHale defeated former U.S. Congressman Don Ritter for his seat representing the Lehigh Valley in the U.S. Congress. Currently, McHale is the President of Civil Support International LLC, which is a consulting firm that advises private contractors and government agencies in matters related to disaster preparedness, crisis response, and homeland defense and security. Also....

Assistant Secretary of Defense

He assumed his former position as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Homeland Defense (HD), later to become Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs (HD&ASA), on February 7, 2003. He left in January 2009 at the end of the George W. Bush administration. The first to hold this position, Mr. McHale supervised all homeland defense activities for the U.S. Department of Defense and represented the Department of Defense at the highest levels of U.S. domestic crisis planning. Additionally, as the ASD(HD&ASA), he was responsible for DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection, civilian oversight of the two combatant commands in North America and South America, Western Hemisphere affairs, and the transfer of technologies to homeland security use pursuant to Section 1401 of the 2003 National Defense Authorization Act.