- — MOVING ON UP… AT BROADPOINT… — Broadpoint has appointed Robert “Vaughn” Crisp II as its new Vice President of Sales for the Americas. Crisp brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Broadpoint. He joins the company from satellite and telecommunications provider CapRock Communications, Inc., where he served as the Director of Sales, Americas. Crisp will focus on growing Broadpoint’s VSAT customer base and will implement a strategic management system to ensure Broadpoint’s customers enjoy the best possible consultative service and communication solutions, keeping them ahead of the curve—Houston, Texas
- — NO FAILURE IS THE GOAL — Failure Analysis has asked Dr. Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, to add prognostic technology to current NASA man-rating systems. This technology could be used for increasing the reliability of launch vehicles. Unlike diagnostic technology that identifies equipment that has already failed, prognostic technology identifies equipment that is going to fail. Failure Analysis discovered that space equipment does not fail from an unreliable piece-part, but from circuit transients caused by completely normal and unusual piece-part aging in circuits that drive the most susceptible piece-part to fail and these circuit transients that cause susceptible piece-parts to fail are observable very early in the overall equipment failure process. This process allows space equipment failures to be identified months before a failure and managed to a positive conclusion. These algorithms have been used successfully by Failure Analysis on NASA, Air Force and commercial satellites and launch vehicles—Salinas, California
- — MOVING ON UP… AT MARSHALL CENTER — The new director of the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is Byron W. Butler. He will supervise all stages of the contracting process, including solicitation, evaluation, negotiations, awarding, and contract management. He will oversee 150+ civil service and contract employees, supervise 900+ active contracts, grants, and agreements, valued at more than $31 billion. Butler started his NASA career in 1979 at Marshall as a contract specialist.
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