Orbimage Names William Schuster Chief Operating Officer

DULLES, Va., Dec. 9/Satnews Daily/ ¾ William "Bill" Schuster has joined Orbimage Inc. (Pink Sheets: ORBM) as Chief Operating Officer.

Schuster brings a wide array of contacts, business management and leadership experience to Orbimage after successful careers in both government and industry. He was most recently with BAE Systems, where he started a new operation as the president of Integrated Systems. In this role, he built the Reston, VA site, its staff, developed processes/procedures and established a Systems Integration business. He then led that organization in the pursuit and ultimate prosecution of key "system of systems" enterprise-level opportunities and the capture of an extremely significant transformational government program within the first two years.

Prior to BAE, Bill served at Harris Corporation as vice president of programs within the government communications system division and was vice president of the space applications operation at Loral Space and Range Systems.

Bill began his professional career with the Central Intelligence Agency where he spent nearly twenty-two years. Upon his departure from CIA, he was recognized by Secretary of Defense, William Perry, for the pivotal role that he played in the conceptualization, development and operation of several National Reconnaissance Systems.

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