{"id":64908,"date":"2018-06-15T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/firefly-welcomes-new-vp-of-business-development\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:02:21","slug":"firefly-welcomes-new-vp-of-business-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/firefly-welcomes-new-vp-of-business-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Welcomes New VP of Business Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefly Aerospace<\/strong> has appointed&nbsp;Leslie Kovacs&nbsp;as vice president of business development. Kovacs has more than 30 years of space launch industry experience, most recently at <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) as director of executive branch affairs, where he helped shape federal policy and acquisition approaches for the&nbsp;$57 billion&nbsp;Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Kovacs will be based in Firefly\u2019s&nbsp;Washington, D.C. office.<\/p>\n<p>Additional roles in Kovacs\u2019 career include acting as a launch controller at Cape Canaveral, developing architectures for lunar and Martian surface habitation, leading concept of operations efforts for launch vehicles to replace the Space Shuttle, and developing the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> Spacelift course, where he instructed classes in orbital mechanics, launch vehicle design and range and flight safety operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefly Aerospace has appointed&nbsp;Leslie Kovacs&nbsp;as vice president of business development. Kovacs has more than 30 years of space launch industry experience, most recently at United Launch Alliance (ULA) as director of executive branch affairs, where he helped shape federal policy and acquisition approaches for the&nbsp;$57 billion&nbsp;Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Kovacs will be based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}