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he Indianapolis Star was founded on June 6, 1903,[2] by Muncie industrialist George F. McCulloch as competition to two other Indianapolis dailies, the Indianapolis Journal and the Indianapolis Sentinel. Central Newspapers, Inc. and its owner, Eugene C. Pulliam—maternal

grandfather of future Vice President Dan Quayle—purchased the Star from Shaffer's estate on April 25, 1944, and adopted initiatives to increase the paper's circulation. In 1944, the Star had trailed the evening Indianapolis News but by 1948 had become Indiana's largest newspaper.

Well known as a political conservative, Pulliam was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1952 that named General Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Republican Party's presidential nominee. However, Pulliam was less willing to endorse Barry Goldwater's candidacy against

President Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential race. Cerberus is named after the mythological three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hell.[6] Feinberg has stated that while the Cerberus name seemed like a good idea at the time, he later regretted naming the company after

the mythological dog.[7]
Dan Quayle, former Vice President of the United States 1989–1993, who served under President George H. W. Bush, joined Cerberus in 1999 and is chairman of the company's Global Investments Division. In addition to owning DynCorp International, Cerberus

owns IAP Worldwide Services, which bought Johnson Controls' World Services division in February 2005. Previously owned Multimax (purchased predecessor company in 2000 and Multimax in 2006; sold entire holding in 2007 to Harris Corporation). In 1951 Land-Air Inc., which

implemented the first Contract Field Teams (teams of technicians that maintained military aircraft for the United States Air Force), was bought by California Eastern Aviation Inc.[17][18] DynCorp still holds the contract 50 years later, maintaining rotary and fixed-wing aircraft

for all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.[17] At this time, revenues for the company reached $6 million.[17]
In 1952 the company, renamed California Eastern Aviation, Inc., merged with Air Carrier Service Corporation (AIRCAR), which sold commercial aircraft and spare parts to

foreign airlines and governments. It bought 19 digital and network service firms and acquired contracts with the government's information technology (IT) departments.[15] By 2003 roughly half of DynCorp's business came from managing the IT departments of the Central

Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, among others.[15] In 1999 DynCorp moved its headquarters to Reston, Virginia. In December 2011 the company hired Michael Thibault, former co-chairman and commissioner of the

Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (CWC), as vice president of government finance and compliance. Thibault worked for many years at the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), serving as Deputy Director from 1994 to 2005.

On November 23, 2020, Amentum, a

contractor supporting U.S. federal and allied governments, announced that it has closed the acquisition of DynCorp International, a provider of sophisticated aviation, logistics, training, intelligence and operational solutions in over 30 countries worldwide. An amentum (Greek

ἀγκύλη) was a leather strap attached to a javelin used in ancient Greek athletics, hunting, and warfare, which helped to increase the range and the stability of the javelin in flight. A Swiss arrow[1] (also known as a Yorkshire arrow, Dutch arrow, Scotch arrow, or Gypsy arrow)

is a weapon similar to an arrow, but thrown with a lanyard, retained via a small notch close to the fletching. It is very similar to an amentum and uses the same principle as a spear-thrower. The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led

operation with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission Units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)—also known

as "Night Stalkers"—and operators from the CIA's Special Activities Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission Units.[4][5] The operation ended a nearly 10-year search for bin Laden, following his role in the September 11 attacks on the United States.

In June 1999 Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet named Black director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC).[4] In this capacity, Black served as the CIA Director's Special Assistant for Counterterrorism as well as the National Intelligence Officer for

Counterterrorism.[5] Black's promotion was a part of Tenet's "grand plan" for dealing with al-Qaeda. Black was the operational chief in charge of this effort. Tenet also put "Richard," one of his own assistants, in charge of the CTC's bin Laden tracking unit. Black still headed

the CTC at the time of the attacks of September 11, 2001. From 2005 to 2008 Black was Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA (later renamed Blackwater Worldwide, then Xe, and finally Academi), a US-based private security firm which was "the biggest of the State Department's three

private security contractors".[In February 2017, the Ukrainian oil and gas corporation Burisma announced the addition of Black to the company's board of directors, leading the company's security and strategic development efforts.[32]
In the wake of the Hunter Biden email

controversey, a report from The Wall Street Journal associated Black's role at the firm with a group of "well-connected operatives in Washington to help persuade Ukrainian prosecutors to drop criminal cases against it."