C4 Planning Solutions LLC, an information technology supplier of systems and services for the Department of Defense and homeland security markets, May 17 said it has retained the consulting services of former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul McHale.

Mr. McHale is the president of Civil Support International LLC, a consulting firm offering advisory services to government agencies and private contractors related to military sales, homeland defense, disaster preparedness and crisis response.

An internationally recognized expert in counterterrorism and homeland defense, Mr. McHale will help to identify new market opportunities for the sale of C4’s K-Gen(tm) Software Suite, which provides comprehensive plan development for Information Technology networks to both the U.S. government and foreign markets.

McHale served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense from 2003 to 2009. He also served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 15th district between 1993 and 1999. While in Congress, McHale was an active member of the House Armed Services Committee. A retired colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, he served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007.