"Intelsat has been the industry standard for commercial satellite services for decades," said Ronald V. Swanson, president of HGS. "Now HGS has the ability to provide our government customers improved access to these services, thus simplifying the process and reducing procurement time. This is a big step in providing commercial satcom services to the government."

HGS' current General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service (GSA-FTS) contract provides government customers one-stop-shopping for satellite-based products and services in an e-commerce-like environment online at www.hughesglobal.com.

This Intelsat direct access agreement expands the HGS GSA-FTS offerings for government customers, providing more options, thus fostering a more competitive environment for users of satellite-based services.

Domestic and international bandwidth from multiple service providers, offering mobile satellite telephony and data messaging, VSAT networks, video teleconferencing, access to the HGS-1 satellite's bandwidth, and the DirecPC data delivery capability, are available through the HGS GSA-FTS contract.

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