MCKINNEY, Texas, Sept. 7, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company's
(NYSE: RTN) Network Centric Systems (NCS) has named Les Janka vice
president, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia NCS operations.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070907/NEF008 )
Janka will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and will act as the senior
NCS executive in the Kingdom. He will represent NCS on all operational and
business development issues in the Kingdom and will be responsible to
develop close relationships with the senior leadership of the Saudi
customer community, Saudi partners, U.S. Embassy and U.S. military for
additional programmatic issues.
"Les Janka brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our
international business development efforts," said Jack Costello, NCS vice
president for Business Development and Strategic Planning. "Our decision to
forward deploy a senior executive abroad underscores the NCS commitment to
the international marketplace, and more specifically, to the key growth
market of Saudi Arabia."
Prior to joining NCS, Janka distinguished himself as an international
affairs expert during a 30-year career as a consultant and multiple
assignments in the U.S. government including high-level tours in several
administrations on the National Security Council and at the Department of
Defense.
In the government, he was the special assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger
on the NSC and was a member of President Nixon's delegation to Saudi Arabia
in 1974. As deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern, African
and South Asian Affairs, he oversaw several major arms sales to Saudi
Arabia including that of the F-15. He later served in the White House as
special assistant to President Reagan and deputy press secretary for
foreign affairs.
In the private sector, Janka led the Middle East and Africa political
and trade advisory practice as executive vice president of Neill and
Company, one of Washington's premier foreign policy lobbying and public
affairs consulting firms. As an independent consultant, he has advised
major U.S. and European companies, resulting in sales of their military and
commercial applications in Saudi Arabia.
A native of California, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
economics from the University of Redlands and his Master of Arts degree in
international economics and Middle Eastern studies from the Paul Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 85
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems
integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
George Rhynedance
703.284.4439
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
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