Hawk Team is a private paramilitary organization working as mercenaries. It was founded by the "dirty" ex-marine Colonel Leland Shaw to be efficient and without traces.
During operation Initial Vector they were engaged in the battle of Hovoro where Carrington Institute and dataDyne were attempting to extract Thaddeus K. Rose from the Core-Mantis OmniGlobal facility. Hawk Team was working for dataDyne at that time, and they managed to extract him even under dataDyne's nose.
Six months later they took over Zentek's Imperial Warehousing Facility in Industrial City, killing the five rent-a-cop guards, and operated out of it so that dataDyne's name would not appear relative to their operations.
One morning they attacked the Carrington office at Los Angeles. Right then computer tech Jackson Abbot was checking in for work, a heavy assault team descended the walls with ropes and broke into the lobby's reinforced doors with a shaped charge. Miss Kineally the Receptionist attempted to shoot at them but her gun was no match for their body armor and was shot dead. Hawk Three reported that they captured Abbot and obtained his access card, and was ordered by the Nest to execute the captive. Right then, Joanna Dark (who was actually stalking Abbot as a suspect), came behind the commando who was ready to kill Abbot, and shot the other hostiles. The last one remaining standing held Abbot as a human shield, but Dark shot Abbot's nose, surprising the commando, allowing her to kick him down and shoot him. According to Abbot, they were a dataDyne strike team that was after the quantum core at sublevel 9, possibly after the Institute operatives' files.
Dark expected that reinforcements would arrive soon. Indeed, a dropship arrived to complete the job. They saw the woman exiting the building and climbing a wire up to the ship, planting a shaped charge on it. As she dropped down the Hawks fired at her, and one was killed before he reached the ground. The carrier exploded and crashed, while Dark used the body as a shield. David Roarke was the only survivor, who stood up furious and left.