Paradigm is the world’s leading commercial provider of military-grade satellite communications.

Paradigm is the prime contractor for the Skynet 5 contract with the UK Ministry of Defence, signed in October 2003, valued at £3.6bn. The programme provides mobile voice, video, internet and broadcast communications for the UK armed forces, as well as a range of other Government departments
and agencies.

We own, manage and operate the Skynet 5 satellite system, and we are responsible for delivering the service, controlling the satellite, managing the network and implementing all upgrades throughout
its life.

From the outset we designed Skynet 5 to be large enough and capable enough that we could provide military satellite services to a range of other countries and organisations. These include NATO and the armed forces of the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, France and Germany.