Artel Inc., a provider of information technology and managed network services, said the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency awarded it a task order to provide satellite service to the U.S. Central Command in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The award is valued at $3.7 million for the one-year base period and is worth, if all options are exercised, more than $12.5 million. The terms of the order call for Artel to furnish the U.S. Central Command with 224 MHz of bandwidth from Intelsat’s IS-706 satellite. Half of the bandwidth will support TDMA service in-theater, with the remaining capacity to be used to provide single channel per carrier services.