EchoStar subsidiary Hughes Network Systems has completed the acquisition of Anderson Connectivity, an aerospace company specializing in design, engineering and manufacturing services. How will Anderson Connectivity’s Acquisition Impact Hughes? Hughes said Wednesday its acquisition of Melbourne, Florida-based Anderson Connectivit...
Sreenivas Ramaswamy has been selected as the chief innovation officer at NobleReach, a nonprofit organization fostering private-public partnerships for talent and innovation in the national interest. NobleReach said April 3 the new CIO will oversee the company’s technology, talent and investment efforts for national and economic secu...
Patrick Markus shared on LinkedIn two weeks ago that he has been appointed vice president and general manager of the defense and government systems division at Hughes, an EchoStar subsidiary. The executive oversees the profit and loss division, driving the adoption of the company’s commercial communication technologies, inc...
Steve Kutchi has been elevated to vice president of engineering and chief technology officer at Thales Defense & Security Inc., the executive shared on LinkedIn Wednesday. In his dual role, Kutchi will oversee TDSI’s technology strategy, product design and development and all engineering services, including engineering labs...
Hughes Network Systems has unveiled a new manufacturing center in Germantown, Maryland, to house the production of satellite modems and terminals and the testing of private 5G technologies. The EchoStar company said Friday the Hughes Manufacturing Facility is located in the Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science and Technology on the Montgomery Coll...
Chris Gregory, former vice president at HawkEye 360, has joined Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) as VP of product management for space domain awareness at its space-focused business arm, according to a LinkedIn post. He spent seven years at HawkEye 360, most recently serving as its VP of system engineering and operations. His...
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) subsidiary Hughes Network Systems will continue to deploy Open Radio Access Network-based private 5G networks at military installations in Hawaii and Washington State through 2025 under a contract extension awarded by the Department of Defense. The contract extension awarded by DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary for Researc...
Hughes Network Systems will provide software-defined auto-PACE platforms and related modems for the space and defense subsidiary of SES in support of the latter’s contract work on the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program. Under a deal with SES Space & Defense, Hughes said Wednesd...
Josh Watters has been named vice president of defense programs and manufacturing services at the defense and government systems division of Hughes Network Systems, according to his LinkedIn post Tuesday. He joins the satellite network and communications company from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), where he worked for over two decades, m...
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS), the parent company of broadband satellite services provider Hughes, and Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH) have signed an all-stock merger agreement with the goal of establishing a global connectivity provider to businesses, governments and consumers. The boards of directors at both companies unanimously approved the deal and all p...
