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UK contractor BAE Systems Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) has delivered the first batch of six Talon satellite communications terminals to Paradigm Secure Communications for eventual use in the UK's Skynet 5 military communications satellite system. In all, 15 such terminals will be acquired, with second and third tranches being scheduled for delivery during December 2002 and August 2003, respectively. Skynet 5 (scheduled for introduction by 2010) is being procured via the UK's Private Finance Initiative and will see (as a beginning) the transfer of the existing Skynet 4 from UK Ministry of Defence control to that of Paradigm. This transfer is scheduled to take place during mid-2003.