[SatNews] Moving into a new role at the Company is an individual with the ability to drive technical solutions forward...

Comtech EF Data Corporation has enhanced its engineering management team with the appointment of John Baddick to Vice President, VSAT System Engineering. This newly created position will address a strategic area of the company. Baddick will direct the technical efforts, including hardware design, software development and product engineering for the Advanced VSAT Solutions. Prior to joining Comtech EF Data, Baddick was with Intelsat for seven years in senior program management roles, leading many of the company’s largest management service developments and introductions to various market segments. His most recent position was Senior Program Manager, Engineering and Business Operations. Previous to Intelsat, he held the position of Vice President, Engineering, for Verestar. His experience also includes technical sales, systems engineering, network architecture and network engineering deployment, and product development with ViaCast Networks, and senior management operations and engineering positions with Orblynx. Baddick holds a Bachelor of Science degree from East Stroudsburg University, and has completed post-graduate work in programming logic and design from the George Washington University School of Continuing Engineering Studies.



The recently released Advanced VSAT are industry-leading solutions for mobile backhaul, Universal Service Obligation networks, corporate networks, Internet access and other applications requiring high-performance IP transport in hub-spoke network environments. Incorporating advanced technologies developed by Comtech EF Data, Comtech AHA and Memotec, these products are specifically designed to provide unmatched performance at an attractive price for a wide range of applications.