SD Government, Gogo Galileo. Together supporting a changing world and medical emergencies.

June 23, 2026

SD Government (SDG) is like Gogo but different. For government, defense, and special missions customers, SDG promises the same deep connectivity expertise and passion for aviation as Gogo, combined with an innate understanding of the rigor required to fly complex missions securely and reliably. SDG’s customers value our versatile, robust connectivity offer every bit as much as Gogo’s business aviation customers, but at SDG, we realize that for these demanding customers, connectivity is more than a nice-to-have that enhances work, rest and play; it can make the difference between mission accomplished and lives lost.

Our Gogo Galileo HDX antenna is bringing high-speed connectivity to smaller business jets and turboprops, while FDX delivers even greater bandwidth to larger jets and bizliners. Connecting to Eutelsat OneWeb’s low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, Gogo Galileo is selling fast, which means our installation, engineering and OEM partners are constantly generating STCs to enable more aircraft worldwide to access more connectivity.

That’s good news for Gogo’s business aviation customers and even better news for some of our government clients. Here’s why.

Today’s business jets fly further, faster, and higher than ever before, and match this with passenger-cosseting cabins and operational efficiency. Government operators have more choice than ever before to fulfill the needs of long-range VIP transport requirements. Ultra-long-range products from Bombardier, Dassault, and Gulfstream, as well as airliner-based jets add real value to government fleets worldwide.

At the same time, digitization has made aviation electronics smaller and reduced the cooling requirements. Go back 20 or 30 years, and an agency procuring a new maritime patrol or intelligence-gathering aircraft would have no choice but to consider large airframes capable of accommodating multi-person crews. Now, thanks to advanced avionics and connectivity, missionized business jets can fly those same missions – more to follow on this soon.

So where does Gogo Galileo sit on the government connectivity landscape?

Imagine a government customer who wants to equip a large-cabin bizjet to transport VIPs, but has to also keep in mind that government and defense operator aircraft often have to multitask. For example, medical evacuation (medevac) is often a critical secondary role for these aircraft.

The mission requires connectivity that supports the diverse and demanding needs of senior government officials and military commanders. They require secure global connectivity that enables them to stay productive in the air, informed about live ongoing geopolitical situations and notified of situations that will change government strategy. In addition, the connectivity needs to quickly adapt to the specific needs of remote medical management as repatriations or emergency evacuations unfurl. The capability for real-time connection with medical service providers on the ground will literally save lives.

Gogo Galileo is the ideal solution to meet these multiple needs. Its ease of installation and affordable, global, low-latency, high-speed satellite connection delivers consistent connectivity, even above remotest parts of the planet. Even better, thanks to its popularity and rapid roll out, there is every likelihood that even if a Galileo STC is not yet available for the customer aircraft, one is in work or already scheduled.

SDG’s expertise is in matching the system to the requirement and then optimizing it for the customer. In this case, the HDX or FDX antenna system might be paired with Gogo’s router family, providing a highly customizable interface for user devices and other aircraft systems.

Or we might recommend the CCX Technologies AP-251 Secure Router as a great choice should the customer have additional encryption requirements. SDG can pair it with a private network on the ground, ensuring complete end-to-end security.

In the medevac role, the Eutelsat OneWeb network can support the sharing of real-time health data from the air to the ground (or vice versa), as well as video conferencing, enabling experts on the ground to see and engage with medical crew, flight attendants, and even their patients. Depending on the circumstances – critical care transfer or emerging medical crisis – specialist medical crew onboard or flight attendants reacting to a developing problem – a doctor on the ground might find streamed, real-time data from medical devices more useful than live video. Eutelsat OneWeb’s LEO service, with its low (sub-100ms) latency has the flexibility to provide a seamless experience, whatever the need.

The Falcon, Global or Gulfstream, ACJ or BBJ, a government chose for this VIP, and sometimes medevac aircraft, has connectivity requirements in many ways very similar to those of Gogo’s business aviation customers, but with additional security, encryption, and access requirements. For these SDG has the answers, and for those times when a patient is onboard, the speed of Gogo Galileo and Eutelsat OneWeb can make the difference between life and death.