Intelsat General To Supply Bandwidth to U.S. Marines

摘要

Intelsat General Corp. will provide Ku-band bandwidth for use by the U.S. Marine Corps as a subcontractor to one of its potential competitors under a broader satellite capacity purchasing program, the company said in a Nov. 18 press release. The one-year contract, financial terms of which were not immediately disclosed, began Aug. 1 and includes four one-year options. Intelsat General, the government services arm of satellite operator Intelsat, will provide the bandwidth under subcontract to Annapolis, Md.-based Telecommunications System Inc., one of eight companies that provide end-to-end managed network services under the Future Comsatcom Services Acquisition (FCSA) program, which is administered jointly by the General Services Administration and the Defense Information Systems Agency. Bethesda, Md.-based Intelsat General also holds one of the eight FCSA prime contracts.