Company: SAC-UN
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-106802
Chunk: 166

Company: Safeguard Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: S-1
Chunk 166
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. He then returned to the Pentagon to serve as principal military advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and then Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. John Deutch. He was responsible for coordination of critical national security matters with the Joint Staff, Secretary of Defense and White House Staff. He later served as principle Joint Staff advisor to the Secretary of Defense on the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review and authored financial options for the first wartime Congressional Supplemental ($38 billion in less than 24 hours) in wake of 9/11 attacks on the United States. Prior to assuming his last AF position, General Carlson left the Pentagon to serve as commander of the AF’s Eighth Air Force where he commanded all AF nuclear and conventional bomber forces and the AF’s intelligence gathering and processing capability. While in command he successfully created the Air Force’s Information Operations management organization. Following his retirement from active duty, General Carlson was asked by the Obama Administration to serve as the seventeenth 107 director of the National Reconnaissance Office. He served from July 2009 through July 2012 providing direction and leadership on the development, construction, launch, and operation the United States’ reconnaissance satellite constellation. He served as a member of the Boards of Directors at Lockheed Martin Corporation from July 2015 to May 2025 and The Benchmark Corporation from July 2017 to October 2021. He currently serves as chairman of Utah State’s Space Dynamics Laboratory Board of Directors. Carlson’s military awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Air Force ROTC Distinguished Alumni Award, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Award, the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the James V. Hartinger Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Military Space, and the Order of the Sword, Air Force Materiel Command. General Carlson is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive experience in the defense industry as well as his prior public company board service and oversight of multi -billiondollar budgets. Richard Newton will be one of our directors as of the commencement of trading of our securities on the NYSE. Lieutenant General Newton (Ret.) served 34 years in the US Military, culminating as the US Air Force Assistant Vice Chief of Staff. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower & Personnel and oversaw Global Operations directorate for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Newton commanded Minot AFB and the first B -