DISA Official Talks Comsatcom Priorities

The relationship between the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the commercial satellite industry has improved over the past few years, according to Eron Miller, chief of the agency’s satcom division infrastructure directorate… READ MORE »

How Industry and Government Can Make Commercially Hosted Payloads Work

During his time working with the U.S. Air Force, Earl White, former Air Force senior executive and intelligence advisor at the U.S. Space Security and Defense Program, says that he saw three major unsolicited… READ MORE »

FAB-T Force Element Terminal Costs Up 24 Percent From Last Year

Costs for the Force Element Terminal (FET) portion of the U.S. Air Force’s Family of Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) program increased 24 percent in 2015 compared to 2014, according to the Pentagon’s Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) released Thursday, March 24… READ MORE »

DARPA Seeking Private Partners for In-Orbit Servicing Program

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is reviving its in-orbit servicing efforts through a new public-private partnership program called Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS). Under the RSGS vision, the partners would join a DARPA-developed modular toolkit, including hardware and software, to a privately developed… READ MORE »

Skot Butler Replaces Kay Sears at Intelsat General

Intelsat has promoted Skot Butler to president of Intelsat General Corporation, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary that provides satellite communications solutions to military, commercial and government customers. Butler replaces Kay Sears, who left to pursue a new professional opportunity. She was president… READ MORE »

Network Innovations, Intellian, Inmarsat Sign European Government Global Xpress Customer

Network Innovations (NI) in partnership with Intellian has completed the first European Government XpressLink conversion and Global Xpress (GX) Maritime service activation. The company is one of Inmarsat’s primary Value Added Resellers (VARs), having extensive experience in field testing and transmitting on the GX network… READ MORE »