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  • Moving On Up… At Globecomm Systems… The company has appointed Keith Hall as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Globecomm Network Services (GNSC). In his expanded role, Keith will be responsible for the GNSC business as well as for the company’s acquired subsidiary, Globecomm Services Maryland LLC. His responsibilities will include planning and execution of corporate growth strategies, strategic business development, creation of new service based solution offerings and execution of service contracts through on-going operations. Over the last six years, Hall led GNSC towards increased growth and profitability with a focus on expanding GNSC managed service products to address the broadcast and wireless markets. Mr. Hall has been with Globecomm for the past 12 years.

  • Integral Systems (Nasdaq: ISYS) is leasing additional office space in Colorado Springs, Colorado, El Segundo, California, and Chantilly, Virginia, to accommodate the satellite ground system company’s government business growth. The new 15,000 square feet of office space in Colorado Springs is located across the street from its current location at 980 Technology Court. The expansion brings Integral’s Colorado Springs total office space to more than 48,000 square feet, with roughly half of Integral’s worldwide employees located in Colorado Springs.

  • Moving On Up… At NASA… Edwin H. “Hank” Miller has been named booster deputy project manager in the Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Miller manages the technical, cost and schedule aspects for space shuttle reusable solid rocket boosters. His responsibilities include planning, budgeting, scheduling, engineering design and development, integration, test, evaluation, and launch operations. During a space shuttle launch, the two solid rocket boosters generate 85 percent of the necessary thrust during the first two minutes of flight. He was presented NASA’s Silver Snoopy award by the Astronaut Corp in 1999 for his contributions to the success of human spaceflight missions. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, which recognizes significant, specific contributions to NASA’s mission, in 2006.
    Also announced by NASA is the appointment of Thomas B. Irvine will be the deputy associate administrator for the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Since May 2005, Irvine has been the director of the Mission Support Office for the directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. In his new position, he will assist NASA Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research Jaiwon Shin with planning, management and development of NASA’s aeronautics research activities. NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate conducts cutting-edge, fundamental research in traditional aeronautical disciplines and emerging fields to help transform the U.S. air transportation system and support future air and space vehicles.

  • Financially Speaking… Telenor… In connection with Telenor’s long-term incentive programme for Telenor managers, Telenor’s Group Executive Management and other managers have purchased shares in the company. The Long-Term Incentive program (LTI program) includes approximately 100 employees holding national and international managerial positions. The managers are offered a fixed element, which will amount to between 15 to 30 per cent of their base salary, and which shall be used to purchase Telenor shares with a lock-in period of three years. The objective of the LTI program is to develop and promote the joint interests shared by managers throughout the Telenor Group, and furthermore, to align the interests between the managers and the owners, thereby maintaining Telenor’s focus on long-term value creation. The shares are purchased at NOK 78,94, which is the volume-weighted average of the five calendar days from July 28 to August 1, 2008.