CAE announced the appointment of Daniel Gelston as Group President, Defence & Security, effective August 24, 2020. He will be based in Washington, D.C. and will be succeeding Heidi Wood, CAE's Executive Vice–President, Business Development & Growth Initiatives, who was also acting as interim Group President. Before joining CAE, Mr. Gelston served as President of L3Harris Technologies' Broadband Communications Systems sector and President of Communication Systems-West division. In this role, Mr. Gelston led his team to multiple record-breaking years of fiscal performance and significantly improved the business's overall competitive win-rate and pipeline expansion.