03 March 2011
GAITHERSBURG, Md.- With the recent
addition of Daniel Bertram as president of
VT Group's Unmanned Systems line of business, the division is
relocating from McMinnville, Ore., to Portland. The new, expandable
7,540 square foot facility, located in the PacTrust Business
Center, will be the hub for VT Group's activities in the
rapidly-growing unmanned system market.
"As our presence in the unmanned systems industry continues to
grow, we needed the right facility in a location that allowed us to
better support our customers," said Bertram. "Portland is the
perfect location as it provides great accessibility for our
employees, to our customers, and gives us the ability to tap a
well-educated talent pool to abet our growth."
Bertram joined VT Group January 2011 with more than 25 years
management experience, including 14 years of successful executive
leadership in aviation, unmanned vehicles, and defense systems as a
supplier/partner to domestic prime contractors such as Boeing,
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin as well as
international organizations. Most recently, Bertram was
president/CEO of Coda Octopus Americas based in Salt Lake City, and
previously president/CEO of DataMetrics Corporation in Orlando,
Fla., both tier two defense contractors.
In September 2010, VT Group acquired this line of business from
Evergreen International Aviation Inc., located in McMinnville.
Formerly known as Evergreen Unmanned Systems, the firm was a
leading provider of support for Unmanned Systems with a proven
performance record on multiple platforms including
ScanEagle® and Maveric.
VT's Unmanned Systems is a "platform agnostic" full-spectrum
provider of services to the industry, including: program
management, training, logistics, test and evaluation, operations,
mission analysis and maintenance. In addition VT owns,
operates and provides as fee-for-service more than a dozen drones
(UAVs) varying in size and configuration optimized to support vital
military and commercial interests in the U.S. and abroad. For more
information, visit www.vt-group.com/unmanned.
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About VT Group
VT Group's operations provide customer-critical technical
services to the Department of Defense and other government
agencies. VT Group's 2,500 personnel are passionate about serving
their customers. VT Group provides services from design and
acquisition to operation and maintenance of facilities and assets,
through to providing support and training - to everyone from
electrician's mates and aviators to crew captains, financial
managers and logisticians. VT Group recently became a part of
Babcock International Group PLC, the UK's leading engineering
support services organization with 27,000 staff across the globe
who build, manage, operate and maintain assets that are vital to
the delivery of many key public services.
For more information on Babcock, visit http://www.babcock.co.uk/
For more information on VT Group,
visit http://www.vt-group.com