CEO Message

Ted Hengst - Chief Executive Officer
Ted Hengst

Our leadership team welcomes you to the ARTEL website. Our ultimate end-customer is often a 19 year old man or woman on the pointy end of the spear, who has no need to understand either our business or our technology. However, the end result, effective battlefield communications, he or she does understand and expect. That is our mission.

Founded in 1986, ARTEL is a leading global provider of Satellite and Terrestrial communications services and Information Technology services providing a full range of managed communications network services, enterprise information systems services and support and Information Assurance / Cyber-Security solutions meeting mission critical customer needs and requirements. Using proven, tested processes based on our ISO 9001:2008 approved methodologies, ARTEL solves ever-changing satellite and terrestrial communications and IT services problems for its government and multinational customers.

ARTEL’s innovative solutions provide Managed Network Services through space segment engineering and global monitoring and control, Network Operations including centralized NOC and customer support, networking planning and worldwide implementation, and extend far beyond to solving technical problems in Solutions Integration and Information Assurance.

As a trusted provider to the US Government, ARTEL’s end users include all Combatant Commands, the US Army, US Air Force, the Department of State and FEMA. Our private sector partners are blue chip leaders in the communications and information technology business and include Boeing, L-3, Black Box, Inmarsat, Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Cable and Wireless among others.

ARTEL’s continued growth speaks to the Company’s record of success. Using its business model as the foundation for success, ARTEL has achieved several key milestones on its strategic roadmap over the years, culminating in the award of highly visible, high-end and high-value long-term U. S. Government programs during the past 10 years. These programs have contributed to a revenue growth from $215M in 2008 to $407M in 2011. When coupled with our 95% customer retention rate since 1986, and key employees that have been with the firm for an average of 7 years, it is easy to see why ARTEL has become a customer-focused, trusted agent and partner to governments and corporations around the globe.

Ted Hengst
CEO
ARTEL, LLC.