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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded SES Space & Defense a five-year X-band Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with an estimated value of $134 million. 

The contract announced Wednesday is for global X-Band satellite capacity, teleport and network services over a secure global terrestrial network. SES Space & Defense will  leverage the GovSat-1 satellite and is working with other integrators and satcom and teleport operators. 

It is a single award BPA through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) by the U.S. Space Force. This is the first integration services agreement awarded to SES Space & Defense since it acquired DRS GES by SES in August 2022. 

SES Space & Defense President and CEO David Fields said the BPA is a “foundation block” in accelerating the integration of milsatcom and commercial satcom. 

“We have partnered with industry-leading X-Band owners and operators as we understand the demand for secure, non-preemptible mission-assured capacity for critical operations. By combining satellite capacity, satcom services can achieve the highest availability with redundant X-Band coverage and diverse gateway connectivity within sovereign space,” Fields said.