Air Warrior Col. John W. Thompson - KMI Media Group
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Marine Corps Lieutenant<br />
General Thomas D.<br />
Waldhauser has been<br />
named commanding general<br />
of I Marine Expeditionary<br />
Force, and commander of<br />
the Marine Corps Forces<br />
Central Command in Camp<br />
Pendleton, Calif. He also has<br />
been tapped for re-appointment<br />
to the rank of lieutenant<br />
general. Waldhauser—<br />
currently the deputy<br />
commandant for plans,<br />
policies, and operations in<br />
Washington, D.C.—replaces<br />
Marine Corps Lieutenant<br />
General Joseph F. Dunford<br />
Jr. Dunford is advancing to<br />
assistant commandant of the<br />
Marine Corps, and will be<br />
promoted to the rank<br />
of general.<br />
Brendan O’Connell has<br />
been named president of<br />
the Department of Defense<br />
business unit at Harris RF<br />
Communications. Harris RF<br />
Communications, maker<br />
of comms for vehicles and<br />
dismounted troops that<br />
can be used in theater, was<br />
formerly headed by Stephen<br />
Marschilok, who was named<br />
president of the Harris public<br />
Oshkosh Gains $797 Million Army Truck Order<br />
The Army provided Oshkosh Defense with<br />
a $797 million truck and trailer order. The<br />
company will supply more than 4,700 family<br />
of medium tactical vehicle (FMTV) trucks and<br />
trailers under the order from the Army TACOM<br />
Life Cycle Management Command.<br />
The FMTV supports Army and National<br />
Guard units at home and abroad in combat<br />
operations, relief efforts, unit resupply missions<br />
and other functions. “We are eager to fill this<br />
new order and continue to drive Oshkosh FMTVs<br />
off the production lines and into the field,” said<br />
Mike Ivy, vice president and general manager of<br />
Army programs for Oshkosh Defense.<br />
This order is part of a five-year FMTV<br />
contract awarded to Oshkosh Defense for the<br />
safety and professional<br />
communications unit.<br />
O’Connell spent the last<br />
five years as vice president<br />
of DoD sales. Prior to that,<br />
he held management positions<br />
of increasing responsibility,<br />
including director of<br />
European and Central Asia<br />
sales and director of Asia<br />
Pacific sales, Middle East sales<br />
and government programs.<br />
Jason Kovatch<br />
Jason Kovatch joined the<br />
engineering team at AR<br />
Modular RF. Kovatch will<br />
become a development engineer,<br />
creating and supporting<br />
all automated test systems<br />
and amplifier product development<br />
and testing. He previously<br />
has been employed<br />
at the Agilent Technologies<br />
signal analysis division and<br />
Hewlett Packard. He also has<br />
worked in NASA programs,<br />
serving as an associate at the<br />
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in<br />
Pasadena, Calif., to advance<br />
a microgravity containerless<br />
program and the Deep<br />
Space Network.<br />
Paul Osenar was named<br />
president and CEO of<br />
Protonex Technology Corp.<br />
A co-founder of the firm,<br />
Osenar was chief technology<br />
officer since 2004 and a<br />
member of the board of directors<br />
since the company’s<br />
founding. Osenar succeeds<br />
Scott Pearson in the CEO<br />
post, which Pearson held for<br />
the last six years. Pearson<br />
will become board chairman<br />
and remain with the company<br />
in a non-executive capacity.<br />
Harry Fitzgibbons, Protonex<br />
chairman since May 2006,<br />
remains on the board as a<br />
non-executive director.<br />
Michael Strianese, L-3<br />
chairman, president and<br />
chief executive officer, was<br />
presented with the <strong>John</strong><br />
W. Dixon Award at the<br />
Association of the United<br />
States Army (AUSA) 2010<br />
annual meeting and<br />
production of the Army’s medium vehicle fleet,<br />
as well as support services and training, through<br />
fiscal 2013. The order brings total FMTV orders<br />
to date to more than 14,000 trucks and trailers.<br />
The Army’s delivery order includes more than<br />
4,150 trucks and 590 trailers. Deliveries are<br />
scheduled to begin in September 2011 and<br />
finish in August 2012.<br />
exposition in Washington,<br />
D.C. Strianese received the<br />
award for the company’s<br />
ongoing contributions to<br />
the armed forces and the<br />
defense industry.<br />
Warren Sitzinski<br />
Army Veteran Warren<br />
Sizinski joins 50d Tactical<br />
to deliver next-generation<br />
thermal control products to<br />
the armed forces. “I’m very<br />
excited about joining this<br />
team,” Sizinski said. “The<br />
efficient cooling provided by<br />
50d Tactical products is doing<br />
everything from improving<br />
soldier alertness in the field to<br />
extending talk time of mobile<br />
communications gear.” 50d<br />
Tactical is part of HTFx ,<br />
which among other things<br />
makes thermal gear that can<br />
help to keep soldiers cool even<br />
in very hot climates.<br />
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