The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a task order to UltiSat for services to support the agency’s Contingency Satellite Services Project. The company will deliver satellite services that work to meet operational communications requirements for FEMA response and recovery missions along with network support for training, testing and operations, UltiSat said Monday. UltiSat CEO Moe Abutaleb […] More

Gaithersburg, Md.-based UltiSat has secured a $9,369,756 task order contract with options from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide Ku bandwidth capacity for a U.S. military organization based at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The company will support Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle flight tests along with its Ku-band earth terminals associated with a mission […] More

UltiSat has been awarded a potential $4.1 million task order to provide Ku-frequency bandwidth support for the U.S. Pacific Command‘s fleet of Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles. The company said Wednesday the task order requires bandwidth support for GH Ku-band earth terminals and Tri-band Tactical Field Terminals at the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan and a […] More

Nancy McCarthy is vice president of federal sales at software and digital services provider Axway. She brings more than two decades of experience in business development, sales, strategic relationships and management to the company. McCarthy also serves as president of the CEO Rainmaker Roundtable and prior to joining Axway was CEO and president of sales […] More

Manish Parikh serves as the vice president of business development and strategy for the intelligence and security sector at the U.S. subsidiary of British defense contractor BAE Systems. He oversees pursuits of new contracts and recompete awards for the sector, which is part of the BAE Systems Inc. subsidiary. Parikh previously served as deputy VP for data analytics and […] More

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has observed the U.S. Defense Department seeking out opportunities to partner with satellite companies to increase DoD’s military communications capacity. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Wednesday on the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association website that she believes industry can help troops access on-demand satellite […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed initial on-orbit validation tests of its upgraded XR-5 Hall Thruster using Boeing‘s X-37 unmanned space plane as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4. The five-kilowatt XR-5A Hall Thruster includes performance and operating range modifications based on the results of XR-5’s initial low-rate production and flight programs, Aerojet Rocketdyne said July 1. […] More

Communications sector executives such as Hughes Network Systems’ Rick Lober and Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch discussed the various system-level approaches to mobility services for the military in a panel discussion at Satellite 2015, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday. Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat senior vice president of government policy and strategy, said she believes mobility needs to be seen as a ubiquitous […] More

Orbital Sciences has ordered Aerojet Rocketdyne electric propulsion subsystems for installation on its communications satellite platform. Aerojet Rocketdyne will deliver the XR-5 subsystems over the next three years for the GEOStar-3 geostationary orbit satellite, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday. The XR-5 subsystem comprises 5-kilowatt class Hall thrusters with flow regulation valves, power processing units with thruster selection units and […] More

Yogesh Khanna serves as vice president and chief technology officer of IT infrastructure solutions for the North American public sector at Computer Sciences Corp., holding more than 20 years of experience in the information systems, financial services and telecommunications markets. His background includes roles in helping create new technology and business offerings at companies such as […] More

H. Brian Thompson, executive chairman of the board of directors at worldwide cloud network provider Global Telecom & Technology, Inc., has written a an autobiography where he details his life as a telecommunications executive. The Red Thread is Thompson’s business memoir that takes readers through his various leadership roles in the telecommunications industry. Prior to serving as […] More