The announcement is part of a strategic initiative to provide the next generation of advanced satellite communications services for the military and intelligence community. Arrowhead is making significant investments in X-band teleport infrastructure and satellite capacity, including signing a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement with XTAR LLC, headquartered in Rockville, MD. Defense and government missions increasingly require greater amounts of satellite bandwidth to support in-theater communications for intelligence gathering and tactical deployments. Satisfying the growing appetite for bandwidth has recently proven difficult due to the shrinking supply of Ku- and C-band capacity across the commercial satellite industry. Arrowhead’s managed services are based on a new generation of commercial X-band satellites, owned and operated by XTAR. The new Arrowhead X-band services not only add much needed capacity for defense and intelligence communications, but also offer the government specific frequency at much more affordable commercial prices.
The new X-band managed network services will offer more than just basic satellite bandwidth. Arrowhead’s complete connectivity solutions will include a variety of remote site equipment packages in fixed and rapid deployment configurations, field services, teleport services and terrestrial interconnects to public, private and government network gateways. The service will provide coverage over key regions including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Asia. To develop the new X-Band service, Arrowhead has entered into a strategic agreement with XTAR for multiple transponders on its XTAR-EUR and XTAR-LANT satellites. Both satellites provide the benefit of being fully compatible with all Department of Defense (DoD) and NATO X-band SATCOM equipment, including current and legacy platforms.