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Overseas safety gains visibility in wake of shooting: most assignments include security preparations.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-JAN-03
Format: Online - approximately 711 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Overseas safety gains visibility in wake of shooting: most assignments include security preparations.(Kuwaiti gunman kills man from San Diego)

Article Excerpt
San Diego got a lesson last week in just how close to home international news can be. Two men from a San Diego-based company providing software for the U.S. military were ambushed by a Kuwaiti gunman Jan. 21 near Doha, in Kuwait.

Michael Pouliot, the executive vice president and co-founder of Tapestry Solutions, was killed. David Caraway, a senior software engineer, was critically injured but is expected to recover.

Now that employees overseas have been targeted, other local companies are assessing security, as well.

Ron Zollars, spokesman for SAIC, said the company has always been mindful of security overseas. Whenever employees go abroad, they receive...

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