Thursday

Infotech 2009 Dayton Ohio Wright Patterson AFB

Over 100 of the Military IT elite industry partners joined the AF Cyber and IT leaders for Infotech 2009. I had the pleasure of having some dear firends from ESW and caets join me in our MIT booth. Kudos to the Dayton AFCEA Chapter for creating one of America's premiere military IT events! Gen. C. Robert Kehler (below) joins the Mayor of Dayton Infotech/AFCEA Leader from CRC and GreenTree to Welcome the thousands to Infotech 2009! The General had some very important comments on the importance of integrated solutions being provided by the industry to the US Air Force (read more here)

Monday

Rick Lober and Rajeev Gopal from Hughes join me at SATCON


SATCON 2009 was the focus for the U.S. Military surrounding the recent DISA/GSA FCSA military satellite communications initiative. I sat down with Richard (Rick) Lober, VP and General Manager of Defense & Intelligence Systems Division for Hughes and Rajeev Gopal, Ph.D., Senior Director, Transformational Communications for Hughes Network Systems. In Parts One and Two they share their views on the DISA/GSA alliance surrounding FCSA, the big part that Hughes plays in this space, Hughes solutions to bandwidth efficiency, the Jupiter Launch, the interesting opportunities for those considering a career in satellite communications and more.





Friday

The 24th Air Force for Cyber Defense

Look for the 24th Air force and General Webber to be featured in the December MIT!