Six companies have received $278.5 million in agreements from NASA to build and demonstrate space communication services as the agency moves to decommission its fleet of near-Earth satellites. Inmarsat’s U.S. government arm, Kuiper Government Solutions, SES Government Solutions, Telesat U.S. Services, SpaceX and Viasat are expected to complete dev...
Joel Machen, formerly vice president of product development for Inmarsat‘s government business arm, has joined SpiderOak Mission Systems to serve as VP of program management for zero trust hybrid space security products. Dave Pearah, CEO SpiderOak, said in a statement published Thursday Machen will be responsible for supporting delivery of Orb...
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has been elected to serve on the executive committee of the Space Enterprise Consortium for a two-year term. She is now part of an organization that promotes collaboration across the industrial, civilian and federal sectors to accelerate space tech...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2020 — Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, said a new level of public-private collaboration that embraces a "commercial first" approach is key to innovate and modernize military space systems, ExecutiveBiz reported May 12....
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, told Catherine Melquist, president of the Mobile Satellite User Association, in an interview published on MilsatMagazine that the U.S. government and industry are teaming up to leverage the opportunities of space by making changes to acquisition pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 19, 2020 — Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government policy and strategy at Inmarsat Government, said the extent to which the government and the private sector can discuss future actions will help companies make decisions about technology investments and partnerships, ExecutiveBiz reported March 11....
Gary Gagnon, former vice president and chief security officer at Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), has rejoined Mitre as VP of cyber strategy and CSO. He will be responsible for developing and implementing cyber and physical security measures across the nonprofit corporation’s work program, Mitre said Monday. Jason Providakes, pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 12, 2018 ” General Atomics has flown an MQ-9B SkyGuardian variant of its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft from North Dakota in the U.S. to Gloucestershire in the U.K. ahead of the platform’s presentation at the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo airshow over the weekend, ExecutiveBiz report...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 19, 2018 ” A subsidiary of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will develop a proof of concept and demonstrate a prototype government network operating center in efforts to build on the capacity, resiliency and responsiveness of wideband satellite communications for the U.S. government, Executi...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has re-awarded Satcom Direct‘s communications business a potential five-year, $245 million blanket purchase agreement for global voice and data connectivity services, Satnews reported Thursday. Satcom Direct Communications will provide aeronautical broadband services to the Defense Departme...
