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Major General Friel (Ret.) has served as Vice President Chemical and Biological Affairs since July 2000 and has been self-employed as a consultant to various organizations in the defense industry since September 1998. As Vice President Chemical and Biological Affairs MG. Friel is responsible for the development of business opportunities pertaining to the Company’s core technologies within the chemical and bio-chemical sector. MG. Friel served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1998 rising to the rank of Major General. MG. Friel was the commanding general of the U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland deputy chief of staff for Chemical and Biological Matters of the Army Material Command in Virginia and was responsible for a $1 billion contract for protective military clothing. MG. Friel was also responsible for a $600 million budget for the Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Command for six years and directed over 1 100 scientists and engineers. MG. Friel has also served as chairman of the boards of the Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Enterprise at the Edgewood arsenal in Maryland and the U.S. Army Material Command Acquisition and Procurement Enterprise. MG. Friel earned an M.B.A. from Northwest Missouri State University and a B.S. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a graduate with basic and advanced courses from the U.S. Army Chemical School in Alabama and is also a director of Engineer Support Systems Inc. | 