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  • Janus Clears More Than 1,000 Landmines, Unexploded Ordnance in Iraq; Alan Weakley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Janus Clears More Than 1,000 Landmines, Unexploded Ordnance in Iraq; Alan Weakley Comments

    Janus Global Operations has identified and destroyed 1,246 landmines and other unexploded ordnance in support of the Iraqi-Kurdistan Mine Action Agency’s demining project in Kurdistan, Iraq. JGO said Thursday its explosives detection teams under the Sterling Global Operations unit conducted the demining task in the Erbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniyah provinces of Kurdistan. The company added the […] More

  • Janus Global Opens Middle East, Asia & Africa Operations Hub in Dubai - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Janus Global Opens Middle East, Asia & Africa Operations Hub in Dubai

    Janus Global Operations has established a Dubai office that will serve as the company’s regional hub for commercial and government customers across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. JGO President and CEO Alan Weakley said in a press release published Thursday the Dubai office will support the company’s efforts to expand in the region and rapidly address client […] More

  • Rebranded, Renamed Janus Global Targets Worldwide Stability Operations, Austere Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebranded, Renamed Janus Global Targets Worldwide Stability Operations, Austere Markets

    Global logistics and stability services contractor Janus Global Operations adopted its new name earlier in April from the former Sterling Global Operations brand to complete a two-year process that included a restructuring initiative and changes to the company’s operating model. Alan Weakley, who joined the 7,000-employee company as chief operating officer in September 2013, told ExecutiveBiz in an interview and said the business […] More

  • Sterling Global Operations Adopts 'Janus' Name After 3 Acquisitions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sterling Global Operations Adopts ‘Janus’ Name After 3 Acquisitions

    The stability services contractor formerly known as Sterling Global Operations has adopted the new name of Janus Global Operations after acquisitions of three risk management and security services providers. Janus Global said Tuesday it formed through the purchases of Janus Security International, SNE Special Projects and Tundra Security Afghanistan in an effort to expand global services in the stability operations market. “Our […] More

  • Lou Addeo Joins Sterling Global Operations’ Advisory Board; Alan Weakley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lou Addeo Joins Sterling Global Operations’ Advisory Board; Alan Weakley Comments

    Lou Addeo, former executive vice president of corporate development and strategic acquisitions at ManTech International, has been appointed to the advisory board at logistics services contractor Sterling Global Operations. Addeo will directly collaborate with Alan Weakley, president and chief operating officer of SGO, and will serve as an adviser on the company’s growth initiatives, SGO […] More

  • Laura Jolley Appointed Sterling Global Operations HR VP; Alan Weakley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Laura Jolley Appointed Sterling Global Operations HR VP; Alan Weakley Comments

    Laura Jolley, a 12-year veteran at Sterling Global Operations, has been appointed as vice president of human resources at the Knoxville, Tenn.-based stability operations services provider. Jolley previously served as SGO recruiter, human resources generalist, human resources business partner, HR manager and director of human resources, the company said Monday. “As SGO has continued to […] More

  • Sterling Global Operations Seeks Retirement Homes for Military Working Dogs; Paul Lane Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sterling Global Operations Seeks Retirement Homes for Military Working Dogs; Paul Lane Comments

    Sterling Global Operations has launched a program that aims to find retirement homes for dogs that have performed explosive detection and search-and-rescue functions for military troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. “We’ve so far found homes for 18 dogs sent back to the U.S. from Afghanistan,” Paul Lane, director of operations at SGO, said Thursday. “There […] More

  • SGO Becomes 1st US Firm to Obtain PSC.1-2012 Mgmt Systems Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGO Becomes 1st US Firm to Obtain PSC.1-2012 Mgmt Systems Certification

    Sterling Global Operations is a stability operations company that offers global services to the public and private sector in munitions response; logistics; communications; life support services; risk management; and security. SGO has announced it is the first American company to receive the worldwide certification ANSI/ASIS PSC.1-2012, an international standard for quality management systems at private security companies. The certification was […] More

  • Ian Pilcher Joins Sterling Global Operations as Commercial Accounts Head - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ian Pilcher Joins Sterling Global Operations as Commercial Accounts Head

    Ian Pilcher, formerly vice president of business development at Olive Group, has been appointed director of commercial accounts at Sterling Global Operations and focus on the commercial oil, natural gas and mining industries. Pilcher, a retired British army officer who served in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and North Africa, will be based in SGO’s London office, the company […] More

  • Alan Weakley: Sterling Global Operations Grows Footprint in Iraq, Kurdistan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Weakley: Sterling Global Operations Grows Footprint in Iraq, Kurdistan

    Sterling Global Operations is seeking to grow its oil and gas, mine clearing and other work in Kurdistan and Iraq by expanding its Kurdish operations center and constructing a regional logistics hub. The new 200,000 sq ft logistics hub near Erbil, capital of the Kurdish region, will be used for equipment storage, employee training and vehicle maintenance services, the stability operations company said Wednesday. According to Alan […] More

  • Matt Hulsey: Sterling Global, Dutch Firm Team for Iraq Tanker Wreckage Removal Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Hulsey: Sterling Global, Dutch Firm Team for Iraq Tanker Wreckage Removal Project

    Sterling Global Operations and Special Diving Services Holland will work together to execute salvage and minesweeping work on an Iraqi tanker ship that sunk off the coast of Kuwait during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. SGO will deploy surface-supplied divers that will work to remove the wreckage of the sunken 82,000-ton Amuriyah crude carrier that […] More

  • Matt Kaye: Sterling Global Completes Iraqi De-Mining Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Kaye: Sterling Global Completes Iraqi De-Mining Work

    Sterling Global Operations worked with seismic surveying company Terraseis to remove mines and unexploded bombs from a 154-square-mile land in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The de-mining effort was executed to allow for oil and gas exploration in that area situated near the Iraq-Iran boundary, SGO said Wednesday. “In the 1980s Iraq fought an eight-year war with Iran, and since […] More