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A joint South African-British private security company registered in the British Virgin Islands. G4S [11] [12] London: Rubicon International Services: London: Ex commonwealth SF. Acquired by Aegis Defence Services on 28 October 2005. International Intelligence Limited: Eastington, Stroud: Specialist contracts. Operates in the security and ...
David Stirling, founder of the SAS, founded a PMC in the 1960s.. Modern PMCs trace their origins back to a group of ex-SAS veterans in 1965 who, under the leadership of the founder of the SAS, David Stirling and John Woodhouse, founded WatchGuard International (formerly with offices in Sloane Street before moving to South Audley Street in Mayfair) as a private company that could be contracted ...
Additionally, the UK department of transport published data showing that the shipping fleets of Panama (18.9%), Liberia (11.9%), the Marshall Islands (11.7%), Hong Kong (9.8%) and Malta (5.7%) account for 58% of the global merchant fleet (measured in deadweight tonnage) all of these nations are common FOCs. Singapore (6.8%), and Greece (4.1% ...
Branding subsumed by the Tandy name in 1983 [10] Raytheon Company — United States: 1949: 1984: Spun off as Raytheon Data Systems in 1971, itself acquired by Telex Corporation in 1984 [11] [12] RCA — United States: 1956: 1971: Exited the computer business in 1971; division sold to Sperry Rand in 1972: Reeves Instrument Corporation — United ...
Executive Outcomes is a private military company (PMC) founded in South Africa in 1989 by Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel of the South African Defence Force. It later became part of the South African-based holding company Strategic Resource Corporation. [2] The company was reestablished in 2020. [3]
Redut (Russian: ЧВК «Редут», romanized: ChVK «Redut»), also known as Redoubt, Redut-Antiterror, Redut Security [19] or Centre R, formerly known as "Shield", [20] [21] is a registered Russian Private Military Company (PMC) that is a part of the "Antiterror-family" — a group of PMCs that protect commercial operations of Russian companies.
MPRI provided (along with a French Foreign Legion organized training camp in Šepurine near Zadar) mainly training for commissioned officers, but a 1999 study published in the journal of the U.S. Army War College concluded that the company had no significant intelligence activities or professional influence on senior Croatian military strategy ...
Adaptec, Inc., was a computer storage company and remains a brand for computer storage products. The company was an independent firm from 1981 to 2010, at which point it was acquired by PMC-Sierra, which itself was later acquired by Microsemi, which itself was later acquired by Microchip Technology.