Now, the New Orleans native is the new president and chief executive officer at defense contractor MacAulay-Brown Inc., succeeding Charles Schwegman, who is retiring from the privately held, Beavercreek-based company.
Fuchs, 50, has lofty goals for MacAulay-Brown, to take it to $1 billion in annual revenues within five years, up from $323.3 million in 2010. At the $1 billion revenue level, he figures it would need 5,000 employees, up from the current 2,000. It will keep its base in the Dayton area and continue to specialize in providing engineering and technical services to the defense and intelligence sectors of the U.S. government because that is the company’s “sweet spot,” he said in an interview last week, his first week at MacAulay-Brown.
The company’s growth plans include competing for new contracts the government offers, vying for expiring contracts held by other companies and making acquisitions.
Expansion of its work force could open up jobs for engineers, computer specialists, physicists and mathematicians, among others.
“We’ll go where the government work takes us,” Fuchs said. “But the bulk of the company will always be in the Dayton area.”
MacAulay-Brown was an early sponsor of Honor Flight, the program that flies World War II veterans to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., and helped start up the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center for Human Capital Development, the Beavercreek school for intelligence analysts that has provided employees for MacAulay-Brown and others.
The company has preferred to maintain a low profile as it has grown, but it is too big to sneak up on the competition any more, said Thomas Batty, senior vice president for business operations.
Raising its profile is part of the responsibilities for Fuchs, whose business experience includes executive stints at contractors including OAO Technology Solutions, ATS Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.
He is to operate on the move. He will continue to live in Herndon, Va., near the nation’s capital, a region where he has contacts and MacAulay-Brown has employees.
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