Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, will speak at a Space Foundation-hosted industry forum that will held this spring in Colorado. The 31st Space Symposium will take place at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs from April 13 to 16, Space Foundation said Wednesday. Cowen-Hirsch is slated to deliver […] More

Inmarsat Government — a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British satellite services firm — and Globecomm Systems have partnered to provide U.S. government customers with the Global Xpress Ka-band data service as part of a subscription services agreement. Inmarsat Government said Tuesday it designed Global Xpress to interoperate with the military’s Wideband Global Satellite system. “We are pleased to add Global Xpress to our service […] More

The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems has unveiled a new security analysis product that is designed to help companies protect their critical assets through social media and open source data analyses. The analysis tool is designed to monitor data leaks, intellectual property infringement issues, insider threats, social engineering attempts and smear campaigns, BAE Systems Inc. said Monday. Peder Jungck, […] More

Dwight Hunsicker brings nearly  three decades of telecommunications and GovCon experience to his role as senior vice president and general manager of government solutions at Globecomm. His background also includes time at WorldLinks, a communications services firm he co-founded and served as chief operating officer at, and a business development leadership role at Westinghouse. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Hunsicker […] More

Kevin Taylor, formerly group strategy director of BAE Systems‘ applied intelligence business, has been named managing director of that business unit. He will report directly to CEO Ian King and continue as member of the group’s executive committee, BAE said Wednesday. Taylor most recently oversaw the applied intelligence group’s growth strategy and order backlog for the last two years. The […] More

The Defense Department is exploring two options to integrate commercial cloud services into the agency’s data centers, Information Week reported Friday. Jai Vijayan writes the Defense Information Systems Agency has released a request for information in search of ideas from industry on ways to have cloud vendors deliver services to the U.S. military using DoD’s network and facilities. Under a potential data […] More

Federal agencies have consistently purchased engineering and technical services, IT and telecom services and automatic data processing software the most during the fourth quarters of the past five fiscal years, reports Deltek‘s John Slye. Slye writes Tuesday that this trend is based on contract records in the Federal Procurement Data System, which show that agencies have allotted their remaining budgets […] More

A subsidiary of EMCOR Group has won two contracts to provide repair and preventive maintenance services for U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities systems in Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast. “The services EMCOR Government Services will provide CBP at its 340 sites across the Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast Regions are integral in supporting its critical mission,” Mike Rodgers, president […] More

Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government contracts. Morche recently caught up […] More

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new small unmanned aerial vehicle that the company built to be waterproof and to function with autonomous flight, landing and fail-safe features. “Vector Hawk” weighs four pounds, has a four-inch vertical profile and a software-defined radio that works to help carry out mobile mesh networking tasks, the company said Tuesday. “The Vector […] More

Lockheed Martin is moving into the operational phase of an unmanned aerial system the company is building after completing the program’s research and development stage. The company designed the Indago vertical take-off and landing quad-rotor for surveillance and emergency response operations, Lockheed said Tuesday. A handheld ground control station accompanying the unmanned system works to help […] More

An EMCOR Group subsidiary has won a construction contract for Miami-Dade County’s Master Pump Station No. 3 project that aims to expand the capacity of the sewer system in downtown Miami’s Brickell area. Florida-based Poole & Kent Company will construct a multilevel pump station building housing the four centrifugal pumps and a multilevel generator building housing the standby emergency diesel generator, the company said March […] More