Amy Hopkins, a veteran of the defense and intelligence sectors, has joined Capella Space to serve as vice president and general manager of the satellite company’s U.S. government services business.
She will be responsible for leading and growing Capella’s synthetic aperture radar mission applications in the federal market, the company said Wednesday.
Hopkins most recently served as senior director of defense and security strategy at Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Phantom Works subsidiary and previously held various roles at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Pacific Command.
Capella added that it named Stosh Kowalski, a former executive at KBR (NYSE: KBR), as government programs manager. He brings more than two decades of U.S. Air Force and satellite engineering experience to the company.
