
Ground software as a service company Atlas Space Operations named John Williams as its new CEO, and opened a government-focused subsidiary, Freedom Space Technologies, the company said this week. Williams joins Atlas Space Operations from Viasat [VSAT] where he served as vice president of Real-Time Earth, Viasat’s ground station as a service business line, which Atlas partners with. He has a 21-year career as an Air Force officer and also worked at Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH], ATK Space Systems (now Northrop Grumman [NOC]),…