Carlyle advisors and executives have included President George Bush Sr., members of Osama Bin Laden’s family, James Baker III (Bush Sr.’s Secretary of State), Frank Carlucci III (Reagan’s Defense Secretary and former CIA deputy director), John Major (former British prime minister), Fidel Ramos (former Philippines president), and Frank McKenna (former New Brunswick Premier and Canadian Ambassador to the US).

Venture Partners II (VPII), a Carlyle fund that began in 2002, owns a major stake in DHS. It makes "mobile tactical operations centers" used by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The firm says its Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter, sold under the catchy slogan "The warfighter’s choice," "is deployed by the armed forces of …Israel."

Carlyle’s VPII fund is also a major shareholder in Actelis Networks, an Israeli firm providing computer networking solutions for American, NATO and other military forces. (Another Actelis shareholder is "Vertex Venture Capital.") Although the operational headquarters of Actelis was moved to the US, the company’s "international sales office" is in Israel.

Actelis cofounder, Yuval Baron, is a former marketing director for Comverse Technology, which owned Israeli mass surveillance firm, Verint Systems. (See "Israeli Spy Companies.") Other key Actelis figures include:

Another firm funded by VPII is Panasas. It provides "high performance parallel storage solutions for technical computing applications and big data workloads" used by "defense and homeland security" agencies. Its products are used by US military agencies such as the Army Research Lab., the Air Force Research Lab., the Army Engineer R&D Center, and the Navy Supercomputing Resource Center.

Several other Panasas clients are central to America’s nuclear weapons programs, such as four National Laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Sandia. Panasas also lists the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment as a customer. Panasas is now working on a military contract with Hewlett-Packard.

Panasas is also linked to Israel’s military-industrial complex through ties with Mellanox Technologies.

This Israeli company provides high-performance computer networking technologies to the US Army, Navy, Air Force, FBI, Department of Homeland Security "and various intelligence agencies." It also sells to the world’s leading war industries, including the top five: Lockheed Martin (#1), Boeing (#2), Northrop Grumman (#3), Raytheon (#4) and General Dynamics (#5).

Mellanox systems are integrated into the products of IBM, which has sold tens of thousands of computers to Israel’s military. Silicon Graphics Inc. which has provided visual systems for flight simulators to train Israel’s F-15 pilots, also uses Mellanox systems. Other Mellanox clients catering to Israel’s military are Dell, EMC, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard. Other customers include NetApp and Oracle. (See table "CPP Investments.")

One Mellanox director, Dov Baharav, also chairs Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel’s second largest weapons maker. (See "State-owned Israeli War Industries.") Baharov worked for Amdocs between 1991 and 2010, culminating in his posting as CEO and president of Amdocs Management (2002-2010).

Other Mellanox executives, holding vice-president level positions, have served in Israel’s military. Avi Prescher, served ten years "as an officer in Israel’s Defense Forces Technical Intelligence Unit." He co-founded Mellanox subsidiary, Voltaire, which makes "grid backbone switching solutions" for "high performance super-computers" used in "advanced weapons system design research."

And then there’s Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox’s vice president of Architecture, who "held various software development positions at an elite R&D team in the Israeli Defense Force."

The US Army Association says CSI makes "tactical munitions,...crowd control products,...rocket components and pyrotechnics" for "military forces and law enforcement agencies worldwide." Although Carlyle’s website mentions CSI’s "less-lethal munitions" and "anti-riot products," a grassroots alliance of groups and individuals in New York, called Adalah-NY, reveals that the:

Adalah-NY also reports some tragic examples of Palestinian deaths caused by CSI-made gas:

Carlyle’s VPII also owned Indigo Systems, whose infrared cameras are used to target various weapons, including those that will be aboard the F-35 "Joint Strike Fighter," which Israel has on order from the US. The prime contractor for the F-35 is Lockheed Martin (LM). (See LM in table "CPP Investments.")

Annual Report, 2010
www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/Annual%20Report%20Files/2010%20Annual%20Report%20-%20English.pdf

Carlyle Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group