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...
The National Reconnaissance Office has released a draft request for proposals to seek information on commercial companies that could provide remote sensing capabilities through electro-optical cameras, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “Actually, it just was announced this morning, on the electro-optical side a draft RFP came out re-looking at th...
Thomas Bell Takes Helm as Leidos CEO; Maxar Goes Private Following Advent Deal Completion; Executive Mosaic Names Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 2023 Wash100 Popular Vote Winner; Q&A With Xage’s Matt Heideman Click to Unmute...
John Heller on Amentum Supporting BWXT-Led $45B DOE Hanford Site Cleanup Work; Maxar Shareholders OK Advent’s Acquisition Offer; Matthew Heideman Promoted to Xage Government Segment Head; Q&A With Gary Hix of Hitachi Vantara Federal Click to Unmute ...
