Raymond M. Gomez has been named vice president of public relations. Gomez served most recently as executive director of corporate communications for Ameritech Corporation's Network Services unit in Chicago, Ill.
Michael DuBose has been named president of the company. Prior to joining Grimes, DuBose held executive, engineering, operational, and financial management positions with SAI Corp., RockFord Corp., Dalmo Victor, Inc., General Instrument, and General Electric.
John A. Shaud, a retired Air Force general who previously served as chief of staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, has been named executive director of the Air Force Association.
The company named the following appointments: John S. Hamilton, who most recently served as director of repair and overhaul for Allied Signal Aircraft Landing Systems in South Bend, Ind., named vice president and general manager of Environmental Control Systems. Tig H. Krekel, previously, vice president of military product support for Aerospace Equipment Systems, named vice president and general manager for military customer support in marketing sales and service.
John R. Pierce and Harold A. Rosen, the engineers who developed communication satellite technology and thus ushered in the modern communications era, were named the recipients of the world's largest award exclusively for engineering achievement-the $400,000 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
Allen J. (Butch) Goetz has joined the company as vice president, Technology Division. Prior to joining SatCon, Goetz was the director of advanced technology at Kaman Aerospace's Electro-Optics Development Center in Tucson, Ariz.
Aerospace is one of the most fertile fields to plow for U.S. businesses looking for opportunities in Russia, but the pitfalls are many and deep, according to the U.S. businessman who procured the Topaz space nuclear reactor for the U.S. government.
The U.S. must re-examine the way it balances its intelligence collection between space systems and other assets, Pentagon acquisition chief Paul Kaminski said Wednesday. Appearing at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on enabling technologies of the future, Kaminski said emerging threats such as efforts by rogue nations to develop and deliver nuclear, chemical and biological weapons "are not easily discernible by current collection systems, especially for non-state actors."
ASTRA 1E European direct broadcast television satellite was successfully orbited by an Ariane 42L rocket Wednesday at 8:38 p.m. EDT from Kourou, French Guiana. The 6,600 pound satellite was built by Hughes Space and Communications Co. for the Luxembourg-based Societe Europeenne des Satellites, and is that organization's fifth direct TV broadcast satellite. Arianespace's next flight, to launch the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite, is scheduled for Nov. 10.
Gary L. Barnes was named vice president, advanced programs of Space Applications Corp. Barnes joins the company following 23 years with Hughes Electronics.
Glenn Avolio, former sales and marketing manager, has been named vice president and general manager of the Industrial Encoder Division (IED) in Goleta, Calif.
James V. Bildilli, Chief, Bureau of Aviation Education and Safety for the Illinois Division of Aeronautics, has been awarded the 1995 State Aviation Distinguished Service Award.
George Lombard has been named president of Loral Information Display Systems, a division of Loral Corp. Previously, Lombard was vice president for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) of Loral Defense System in Great Neck, N.Y., formerly the Unisys Government Systems business.
Merrill S. Spiegel has been named director of government affairs, telecommunications and space policy. She most recently served as special assistant to Reed E. Hundt, the chairman of Federal Communications Commission
James (Jim) Szabo was appointed president of the Aerospace Division and program manager for TSC's F-5 Upgrade and Resale unit. Col. Szabo recently retired from the USAF at Kelly AFB, San Antonio, as Systems Program Director (SPD) for Fighter/Trainer Aircraft.
I. Gary Bard was appointed vice president and general manager, solutions integration, for the Federal Systems Division. Bard comes to Unisys from Bard Technology, a professional consulting and venture capital practice specializing in high-tech-nology companies.
Hughes Aircraft Co. is pitching the U.S. Army on "DirectPC" technology that it says will allow the service to unload large, bandwidth-intensive pieces of computer data via satellite. The company says the Army should try the commercial technology in a series of Advanced Warfighting Experiments (AWEs) next year, according to Michael D. Gross, Hughes' product line manager for battlefield systems.
A programmable digital radio built entirely out of sub-state-of-the- art, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic components and aimed at emerging tactical requirements for multi-mode, multi-band wireless communications links debuted this week at demonstrations sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Corp.
An article on NASA flight tests of a laminar flow wing "glove" in The DAILY of Oct. 19 (page 116) omitted the project's prime contractor, Rockwell's North American Aircraft Div., which has subcontracted Boeing and McDonnell Douglas to build the test device.
Aerospace manufacturers large and small are reporting better days in third-quarter financial results this week, although the jetliner business has replaced defense work as the laggard in many companies' backlogs. Both McDonnell Douglas and Northrop Grumman - each with significant stakes in the commercial aircraft market - saw their military businesses outperform their jetliner operations in the third quarter, according to financial results released Wednesday. And Hughes, TRW and BFGoodrich have already reported solid gains.
