Paradigm would like to congratulate Major Phil Packer for his extraordinary and possibly most challenging achievement of climbing El Capitan Mountain (1800 feet) in Yosemite National Park, US, within 4 days last week. Major Packer, who was not expected to walk again after suffering a spinal injury whilst serving in Iraq, 2008, has since raised over £1 million for ‘Help for Heroes’ through astonishing achievements such as completing the London Marathon.

To find out more about Phil’s achievements or to support ‘Help for Heroes’, please visit: www.philpacker.com or www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Stevenage, 21st May 2009. Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd, a subsidiary of Astrium Services, has signed a service order with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 8 May 2009, under the current Skynet 5 Private Finance Initiative Contract, for the delivery of a managed satellite communications service to the first two Astute class submarines. This is the first phase of a programme to supply secure, high data rate communications via the Skynet constellation and will significantly increase data throughput compared to existing systems.

The managed service provides a single integrated solution including service development, help desk, system architecture engineering, programme management, sub contractor management, assurance, supply of equipment and spares, management of MoD supplied equipment spares, training, and Through Life Support.

The service will allow the submarines to rapidly gather or transmit data. The support infrastructure for the system will be provided by Paradigm. Overall, the approach reduces the risk because Paradigm will provide a “one-stop-shop”. Additionally, the service will provide the submarines with a capability advantage compared to current systems. The period of the service is 54 months from a successful harbour acceptance trial on board the submarine HMS Astute.

This order will utilise the existing Skynet 5 infrastructure and satellite constellation currently provided and managed by Paradigm for the UK MoD. The shore based infrastructure will be augmented by additional equipment implemented at other non Paradigm shore based command sites and the submarine platforms themselves.

Currently, Paradigm provides services to the Royal Navy’s Fleet surface vessels and this new service will allow Paradigm to supply a new service to Fleet submarines and the associated shore based command facilities.

Keith Norton, Managing Director Paradigm said: “This is excellent evidence of further benefit realisation from the Skynet PFI and this contract extends Paradigm’s service provision relationship with UK MoD. We are extremely proud to be delivering this new and important communications service to the Royal Navy”

Editors Notes

Paradigm - delivering satellite communications requirements

Paradigm has a contract worth £3.6bn with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the provision of military satellite communications services to 2020, following restructuring of the contract at the end of 2005, to allow for placing a ‘reserve’ satellite in orbit. The programme, procured as a Private Finance Initiative (PFI), provides the next generation of UK milsatcom capability. The Paradigm team includes Astrium Satellites, the system designer and provider. For further information visit paradigmsecure.com

In addition to complete X-band packages, Paradigm is able to offer capacity, coverage augmentation, anchoring and back-haul services, as well as terminal leasing.

From the outset, Paradigm planned for the Skynet 5 system to be far more capable and larger than that required to meet the UK MoD requirements. Paradigm is, therefore, able to offer services to other militaries and government organisations and has supplied milsatcom services to NATO, the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, France, Germany and Australia.

Paradigm's WelComE services enables service personnel to make telephone calls and have access to the Internet from operational theatres worldwide, as part of the MoD funded welfare package. Paradigm has provided over a million hours of welfare telephone calls and provides Internet and email services that are free for use to all UK service personnel deployed on operations overseas.

Astrium Services Astrium Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS Astrium, offers a unique ‘one-stop shop’ in the satellite services market, with unrivalled capability and expertise in secure communications, Earth observation services and navigation services. The European provider of milsatcom services, including the pioneering Skynet 5 service, and a world-leading supplier of geo-information products and services, Astrium Services meets its customers' requirements with innovative and highly competitive end-to-end solutions.

In 2008, Astrium had a turnover of €4.3 billion and more than 15,000 employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands. Its three main areas of activity are Astrium Space Transportation for launchers and orbital infrastructure, Astrium Satellites for spacecraft and ground segment and Astrium Services for the development and delivery of satellite services.

EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008, EADS generated revenues of €43.3 billion and employed a workforce of more than 118, 000.

Contact for the media:

Emily Milsom Paradigm T: +44 (0)1438 282066 E: [email protected]

Jeremy Close Astrium UK T +44 (0)1438 773872 E: [email protected]

CANSEC is Canada's foremost defence and security technology showcase.

A two-day event, CANSEC features product presentations and capability displays by Canada's leading edge defence and security companies. This showcase targets a wide audience of customers that includes Government agencies and departments with an interest in security, public safety, risk mitigation, threat response and emergency planning.

Visit Paradigm on the EADS stand no. 2405 to discuss your milsatcom requirements!

IDET 2009: 10th International Exhibition of Defence and Security Technologies

IDET is one of the largest shows of defence technologies in Central and Eastern Europe. Exhibitors from about 30 countries present their products to foreign army delegations and professionals all over the world.

Visit Paradigm on the EADS stand, pavillion 'F', stand no. 33 to discuss your milsatcom requirements. We look forward to seeing you there!

Paradigm are attending the DISA Customer Partnership Conference on 20th-24th April, in Anaheim, California.

The conference will be attended by Joint Army LTG Carroll Pollett, DISA Director and Commander of the Joint Task Force – Global Network Operations, and the entire DISA leadership. The theme is “One Force. One Focus. Connected.”

The annual DISA Customer Partnership Conference brings together customers, industry partners, senior decision-makers, and subject matter experts, who openly communicate and share information that is critical to helping the Department of Defense achieve mission success.

Paradigm's Reacher terminal receives an excellent review in the latest edition of the NEC (Understanding Network Enabled Capability) publication. Paradigm's Reacher is a land mobile communications terminal which utilises Skynet 5 to bring communications to the front line.

Please see the attached article to read more on this or alternatively you can read more about Reacher in our terminal section under 'our services'.

This feature was taken from NEC, Understanding Network Enabled Capability, published by Newsdesk Communications Ltd. To obtain a copy, please email [email protected]

Paradigm also received an excellent review in the same publication with regards to our Skynet satellite communications system. The article for this can be viewed in the news section called 'Paradigm article in NEC'.

Space News online – 27/03/09

By PETER B. de SELDING Space News Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Astrium Services of Europe, which is branching out from its core military satellite communications services business to Earth observation and navigation, became a billion-dollar company in 2008 with a 43 percent increase in revenue compared to 2007. Astrium Services Chief Executive Eric Beranger said the company expects at least 10 percent revenue in 2009. The decline is mainly due to the fact that the company's core contract, to provide beyond-line-of-sight communications to the British Ministry of Defence and to NATO, reached its average annual revenue rate in 2008 with the completion of launches of the three-satellite Skynet 5 military telecommunications satellites. Beranger refused to give precise revenue figures for the company. But Astrium Services parent, EADS, said in its annual financial statements that Astrium Services in 2008 accounted for 19 percent of the total revenue booked by Astrium in 2008. Astrium Space Transportation and Astrium Satellites are the company's other space divisions. Both are bigger than Astrium Services but are less profitable and growing less quickly. A 19 percent contribution to Astrium's total revenue in 2008 would put Astrium Services' revenue at 814.9 million euros, or $1.11 billion. Astrium Services operates three Skynet 5 satellites and three Skynet 4 spacecraft for the British Defence Ministry, plus one aging NATO satellite. The company is providing part of its Skynet 5 capacity to NATO under a multiyear contract. By the number of satellites it operates and the revenue that is generated from them, Astrium Services is among the world's top commercial satellite operators. Malcolm Peto, chief executive for telecom services at Astrium Services UK, said the company recently has been able to squeeze additional UHF capacity from the Skynet 5 satellites, effectively resulting in the addition of two more UHF channels being made available on each of the three Skynet 5 spacecraft. Each satellite now has seven channels instead of two. Astrium Services recently booked a contract to provide UHF satellite capacity to the U.S. Navy, through its partner, Intelsat General of Washington. Peto said the three large Skynet 5 satellites currently are about 50 percent full. Military and government telecommunications services account for about 60 percent of Astrium Services revenue, Beranger said. Earth observation and navigation-related services account for the rest, with navigation still in the start-up phase. In 2008, Astrium Services purchased the French government's share in Spot Image, whose optical Earth observation satellites will be added to the TerraSAR-X radar satellite operated by Infoterra, Astrium Services' geo-information division. A TerraSAR-X twin, called TanDEM-X, is scheduled for launch late this year. Spot Image operates the Spot 2, Spot 4 and — as its main revenue generator — the Spot 5 spacecraft. Launched in May 2002, Spot 5 is already past its contracted five-year service life but continues to operate well and has several full service years of life ahead of it, Beranger said. He said the company continues to evaluate a Spot 6 satellite to assure the Spot Image revenue stream. Spot 5 accounts for more than half of Spot Image's 100 million euros in annual revenue. Industry officials have cited numerous reasons why Astrium Services has not yet ordered a Spot 6 satellite despite the fact that it will take about three years to build and launch. In the meantime, Spot Image's revenue stream will continue to be highly dependent on a single asset, Spot 5. One reason is that the French government and some other government customers of Spot 5 have grown accustomed to paying low rates for the imagery and now face commercial rates. Another reason is that the Astrium Services purchase of Spot Image occurred just as the credit crisis was causing banks to stop lending. A final reason is that the Spanish government is building a satellite called Ingenio that has many of the characteristics of a Spot 6. "We naturally have an interest in discussing with Spanish authorities on whether there might be some clever way we could work together," Beranger said.

From the 1st -2nd April 2009, Paradigm will be attending the AFCEA Varna Naval Conference at the Melia Grand Hermitage Hotel, Bulgaria. We will be joined by our parent company EADS Astrium and are silver sponsors of the event. We will have a member of our international business development team speaking at the conferece on “Critical Developments in Military Satcoms Capability “.

Please visit us at the event or through our website to hear more about this and to discuss your milsatcom needs.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Deployed troops will be able to contact their loved ones for an extra 40 minutes during the festive period this year.

Paradigm, part of Astrium Services, is proud to support our servicemen and women by providing the free telephone and Internet services that form part of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Welfare package to UK troops, and is committed to making sure that every individual serving on operational duty overseas can remain in contact with families and friends, anywhere, anytime.

British troops deployed on Welfare entitled operations receive 30 minutes of publicly funded call time per week as part of their welfare package, which is vital to their morale and wellbeing.

This year, Paradigm added 10 minutes to the Paradigm account card of all deployed British troops for the festive period, in addition to the 30 extra minutes that were provided by the UK MoD for Christmas. The 40 minutes automatically went onto their account cards at midnight on the 21st December 2008, just in time for the Christmas week. Malcolm Peto, Managing Director of Paradigm, said: “We our proud to support the servicemen and women of the British forces during this festive season. We hope that the extra minutes will give some cheer to deployed personnel and their families this Christmas.“

Paradigm has been responsible for the provision of the WelComE (Welfare Communications Everywhere) service to the UK MoD since September 1999 and has provided over 187 million voice minutes to deployed personnel since the service began.

Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd, a subsidiary of Astrium Services, is proud to support the Help For Heroes campaign. The Stevenage based defence company has supported a number of related fundraising initiatives in 2008, donating a grand total of £10.815 to the charity.

Paradigm’s contribution to the campaign includes corporate sponsorship of the Mercury’s March tri-service exercise, 21st August 2008, and the Help For Heroes Rugby Challenge Match, 20th September 2008. On 6th December 2008, Paradigm boosted additional funds by organising a special charity dinner evening, hosted by Malcolm Peto, Paradigm’s Managing Director. This was followed by an employee raffle, drawn on 17th December 2008, which raised £1700 in total.

Malcolm Peto, Managing Director Paradigm said: “We’re extremely proud to be associated with this worthwhile cause. These wounded Armed Services personnel and their families deserve our help and support. I’m pleased to say the Paradigm team have been truly committed to these fundraising activities, and have demonstrated their full support to the Help for Heroes campaign. Thanks to all of those who generously donated.”