Beacon Global Strategies has appointed technology leaders Divyansh Kaushik and Ben Schramm as vice presidents to offer insights to the strategic advisory firm’s global technology policy practice and national security tech practice, respectively. Beacon said Thursday Kaushik brings to the role his experience in national security and artificial inte...
Paul Sartorius, solution integration director at Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) national security space business, announced via LinkedIn that he has taken the role of vice president and general manager of Cubic’s digital intelligence group. He has more than 21 years of experience in defense contracting, having started as a senior systems engineer ...
Chris Shank, former vice president at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), has joined global aerospace and national security company SNC to serve as VP of enterprise strategy. The Washington, D.C.-based organization said Tuesday Shank will focus on overall enterprise business strategy development and coordination to support the evolving business priorit...
Tria Federal, an information technology and advisory services provider, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of technology leader John Cho as its first chief technology officer and Brian Wagner, a public affairs officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, as vice president of marketing and communications. As CTO, Cho will oversee Tria Federal...
Jon Love, formerly vice president of global business development at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), has joined Compass Group‘s U.S. subsidiary as senior vice president of corporate services, according to his recently published LinkedIn post. Love, who has more than two decades of business development experience, will drive business growth and...
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS), the parent company of broadband satellite services provider Hughes Network Systems, has closed its purchase of Dish Network in a transaction that strengthens its position as a global terrestrial and non-terrestrial connectivity provider to government and business customers. The combined entity will be based in Englewood, Col...
Michael Foster, former head of solutions engineering at CrowdAI, was appointed as chief data officer of the U.S. Central Command. The military branch is banking on Foster’s expertise in artificial intelligence model development, big data management and spatio-temporal analytics to reach its goal of becoming a data-centric organization, CENTCOM...
Rob Zitz, an executive with an impressive combination of public and private sector experience, has secured the chairman role in Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Space Mission Assurance Group. It is Zitz’s 11th consecutive year leading the group, which is concerned with the government’s collaborative work with private industry to complete and exce...
Seven companies have landed positions on a potential $476 million contract to provide NASA with Earth observation data from commercial small satellites. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers the provision of commercial smallsat data products and related services to support the space agency’s Earth science ...
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...
