Vanguard Corporation

Vanguard Corporation	Vanguard Corporation
 	
Name: 	Vanguard Corporation
Goals: 	Manufacturing, especially Defense manufacturing
Founded: 	1938
Leadership 	Leadership
CEO: 	Addison Morrow
Chief of Security: 	Dirk Darville
Research Chief: 	Jason Byrnes
Key Teams 	Key Teams
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A multinational technology firm, Vanguard bankrolls most of its operations with its weapons sales. In 1991, the world watched on television as a Vanguard model AS-19 “Odin” guided missile went straight down the chimney of an Iraqi bunker during the first Gulf War. No company in the world has quite reached Vanguard's level of sophistication with “smart” weaponry. From the early Odin-class cruise missiles to modern Thor-class guided drones to shoulder-mounted Baldur-class rocket-propelled grenades, Vanguard weapons have be used in nearly every theater of war over the last 20 years. Recently, they've even managed breakthroughs in anti-personnel weaponry, with the Rhimefire Assault Rifle setting new records for muzzle-velocity and armor penetration.
Troubling to many officials is a practice that Vanguard Corporation adopted first in Afghanistan and then later in Iraq, deploying ex-military men with these advanced weapons systems as “independent contractors”. These “supplementary security teams” flagrantly ignore international law and have been accused of withholding support from US and allied forces to “protect their investments”.
CEO Addison Morrow has recently begun investing his “supplemental security teams” in prison management, and has even begun offering cash-strapped cities a private means of addressing shortages of uniformed police officers. Vanguard has run both Arcadia County Corrections and Werner's Wall Prison for the past three years. Their interests in Werner's Wall in particular have paid dividends with some of their domestic textile and construction companies, among others.
The company has also suffered a recent embarrassment with one of its heads of research, Alexander Lord coming to blows with Paladin and Victorious in the streets of Arcadia City.
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