Insight | Global Xpress: A proven success story for government
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For Inmarsat, delivering trusted global mobile communications with high resilience is of paramount importance. We provide guaranteed worldwide satellite connectivity for industry and government users that is supported by in-orbit and ground station redundancy and hybrid L/Ka-satellite communications (SATCOM) capabilities for enhanced resilience and frequency diversity.
The U.S. government was the first Global Xpress customer. We began providing Global Xpress services to military users in July 2014. Today, fully deployed and operational worldwide, our award-winning Global Xpress service seamlessly complements military satellite communications (MILSATCOM). It delivers a highly reliable commercial Ka-band end-to-end network that fulfills users’ requirements and enhances flexibility of their operations in the air, at sea and on land. After four years of worldwide service, Global Xpress still remains the first and only commercial global network from a single operator, augmenting MILSATCOM anywhere and anytime.
Global Xpress is the resilient, flexible and scalable SATCOM for mobility service for the U.S. government. Users leverage our services for core functions, while integrating with MILSATCOM to provide optimal redundancy, diversity, security, scalability and global portability – the ultimate resiliency approach. In fact, our approach of augmenting existing government networks, while introducing commercial capabilities in parallel, is increasingly being adopted by government users to access our innovative, powerful, flexible and secure services as they get introduced to the market.
As the U.S. government seeks to adopt an enterprise-level, integrated architecture to fulfil its requirements and enhance flexibility of operations, Inmarsat’s end-to-end managed service – SATCOM as a Service – comes into play. This is a service delivery approach that Inmarsat’s mobile-centric strategy embraces, truly unique in the market. It is how Global Xpress delivers its seamless, affordable wideband service. Our SATCOM as a Service business model allows for rapid delivery of proven technologies that incorporates the full end-to-end capability including satellites, ground infrastructure and terminals. This on-going innovation provides fast, cost-effective solutions to meet the U.S. government’s critical need for resilience, speed and agility to ensure mission success today and in the future.
With this in mind, Inmarsat is embarking on its next chapter of innovation. Our new initiatives further refine and accelerate Inmarsat’s renowned global mobile satellite communications by integrating increased diversity, interoperability and resilience within the government’s existing architecture without additional infrastructure investment from end users.
Inmarsat is a major driving force behind technological innovation in mobile satellite communications. We sustain our leadership through substantial investments and a powerful network of technologies that is critical for our most demanding, complex solutions users. We bring ground-breaking advancements in support of accelerating worldwide demand for seamless mobile capability with unprecedented flexibility, scalability and cost-efficiency – assuring that we will continue to meet and exceed customer requirements well into the next decade and beyond.
Susan Miller is President and Chief Executive Officer of Inmarsat Government Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Inmarsat plc, the world’s leading provider of global mobile satellite communications to the United States government.
Ms. Miller is responsible for the overall strategy of expanding Inmarsat’s leadership position across U.S. defense, intelligence, homeland security and civilian organizations.
Ms. Miller has over 20 years of senior executive leadership experience across a wide range of satellite communication technologies that serve the U.S. government and commercial sectors. Prior to joining Inmarsat, she held leadership positions at MTN Satellite Communications, Spacenet Inc, Intelsat General Corporation, Ligado, Lockheed Martin and Hughes Aircraft Corporation.
Ms. Miller holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.