Intelsat General Communications LLC

Intelsat General Communications LLC, a McLean, Virginia-based for-profit limited liability company and subsidiary of Intelsat US LLC, provides satellite communications services and space segment capacity to the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and civilian federal departments as a prime contractor (83% of recent awards) competing full and open without set-aside designations. The company delivers Ku-band and C-band satellite bandwidth, managed teleport services, satellite internet systems including Starlink and Starshield access, space segment capacity, and satellite ground equipment to support communications infrastructure across CONUS, Hawaii, and overseas locations including Southwest Asia and the Pacific theater.

Intelsat General's customer base concentrates heavily on defense and space agencies. The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command anchors the volume count with 183 awards valued at $864.7 million combined potential value, but the dollar rankings are dominated by major space-acquisition programs: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (5 awards, $13.01 billion combined potential value), the Defense Information Systems Agency (8 awards, $13 billion combined potential value), and the Department of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (17 awards, $4.12 billion combined potential value). These three customers alone represent approximately 98% of the vendor's combined potential value. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service rounds out the top tier (4 awards, $3.45 billion), reflecting Intelsat General's presence on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. Across the 516 total awards in the source data, the vendor serves 71 distinct customer agencies, but concentration is extreme — the top five agencies represent 58% of award count and encompass nearly all dollar value.

Intelsat General holds significant indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring its federal footprint. The most prominent is a $13 billion Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellite-Based Services IDIQ with the Defense Information Systems Agency, awarded July 2025 and replacing an earlier $13 billion PLEO vehicle that ran through July 2033. The company also holds a $4 billion Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) multiple-award IDIQ with the Space and Missile Systems Center (award date July 2025, completion through July 2040) under which it received a $7.299 million delivery order for design and demonstrations work. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 84 task orders valued at $656.3 million combined potential value, including recent delivery orders for Ku- and C-band bandwidth supporting range testing in Hawaii ($9.694 million, Air Force, December 2025), commercial Ku-band space segment for USCENTCOM Southwest Asia ($43.5 million, Space and Missile Systems Center, March 2025), and broadcast services supporting the Broadcast Direct to Sailor program ($35.9 million, Air Force, October 2023). Intelsat General also maintains a $3.6 million Satellite Augmentation and Management Services BPA with the Army's Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T) and a $750,000 Starshield satellite internet BPA with Air Combat Command. The vendor's largest non-IDV vehicles by transaction volume are Indefinite Delivery Contract HC101310D2000 (220 task orders, $243.9 million combined potential value) and other specialized logistics vehicles.

Activity has grown substantially — two awards in 2022 to 51 in 2024 — before moderating to 29 in 2025 and 4 in early 2026. Twelve awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $69.7 million, representing moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's prime portfolio centers on satellite telecommunications (323 awards), with secondary exposure in computing infrastructure and data processing (78 awards) and research and development (33 awards). NAICS 517410 (Satellite Telecommunications) and PSC codes for IT and telecom dominate the award taxonomy.

Intelsat General operates primarily as a prime contractor, with sub-awards representing 17% of the portfolio. Across SCI-reportable service contracts (14 prime records with coverage FY2022–FY2024), the vendor reported $23.9 million in invoiced revenue in FY2023 only, with zero reported FTEs across all fiscal years in the SCI dataset — a signal that SCI captures only a narrow slice of the vendor's federal services activity and that most invoiced work falls below the $150,000 reporting threshold or is structured as goods/products outside SCI scope. The vendor names four subcontractors across SCI-reportable prime contracts with zero average sub-hours share, indicating Intelsat General builds its own delivery teams rather than subcontracting labor. In its sub role, Intelsat General supplies satellite communications services and hardware to Booz Allen Hamilton (on programs including Distributable Battle Management Node Phase II and C4ISR Technical Engineering Research and Sustainment Support), Atlantic Diving Supply (Starshield and Starlink service provisioning), Colsa Corp (Bounty Hunter systems development with Starlink and Starshield equipment and subscriptions), Salient CRGT (MAVERICK task orders), Sierra Nevada Company (Big Safari services), and The MITRE Corporation (Air Force NSEC services). These teaming relationships position Intelsat General as a specialized satellite and space-based communications supplier feeding larger systems integrators rather than as an end-to-end prime contractor for complex defense programs.