Author Archive

Rick Lober

Rick Lober is vice president and general manager of the defense and intelligence systems division at Hughes.
Defense Systems

Why DOD needs to consider commercial SATCOM

Budget pressures, bandwidth demand and technical innovations in the private sector should lead the military to commercial options.

  • Rick Lober
Defense Systems

Technology leap needed for comms-on-the-move

Communications-on-the move technology must continue to evolve to keep intelligence data in motion and to feed it to the warfighter where and when it's needed.

  • Rick Lober