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A Major NATO Airborne Contract Goes To Horizon Technologies For Their Flying Fish™ Airborne SIGINT System

Horizon Technologies has been assigned a £2 million contract by a NATO customer for the company’s FlyingFish™ airborne SIGINT system. This follows a number of 1Q 2022 orders from a variety of customers around the world seeking to upgrade their ISR capabilities. Horizon Technologies’ FlyingFish™ system is currently involved in NATO operations along the Ukrainian […]

iDirect Government Evolves Evolution To v.4.4 With Enhanced MILSATCOM Protection

iDirect Government (iDirectGov) has announced their newest software release, Evolution® Defense 4.4, for enhanced military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) protection. Evolution Defense 4.4 technology advancements are targeted at the Defense Receive Line (DLC-R) cards, enabling Communication Signal Interference Removal (CSIR™) on the DLC-R line cards, and other security improvements. CSIR represents a real-time streaming technology to […]

Airbus D&S + Thales Built CERES Satellites Launched By Arianespace

The CERES space system (Capacité de Renseignement Electromagnétique Spatiale or Space-based Signal Intelligence Capability) satellites, designed and built by Airbus Defence and Space and Thales for the DGA (the French Armament General Directorate), have been successfully launched by Arianespace from the European spaceport in French Guiana, on-board a Vega launcher. CERES is designed to detect […]

Horizon Technologies Closes Million$ Sale — Plus, Amber™ Smallsat Info

Horizon Aerospace Technologies, a subsidiary of Horizon Technologies, has announced an approximately $1 million sale of FlyingFish™ airborne SIGINT systems to a European prime contractor for a Southern European government end-user. The systems will be operated on manned ISR fixed-wing aircraft to support NATO and EU missions in the Mediterranean Sea and Northern Africa. John […]

MILSATCOM Advances From PPM Systems With New Trival Antennas + Masts

Military applications requiring antennas that operate in the lower frequency bands now have wider options for equipment following PPM Systems’ new agreement to distribute Trival Antene antennas and masts in the UK. The deal means that PPM Systems’ extensive range of antennas now extends all the way from 2 MHz to 40 GHz. With applications […]

Series A Growth Investments Received By Horizon Technologies

Horizon Technologies has received a significant growth investment in a multi-million-pound Series A round of financing. This Series A investment will aggressively advance Horizon Technologies’ space-based Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Amber™ data service. Maven Capital Partners led the latest investment round with participation from Virgin Money. New funding will accelerate the company’s launch of further […]

Horizon Technologies Receives Order For Flying Fish To Monitor Critical Infrastructure

Horizon Aerospace Technologies Division has received an order for a FlyingFish™ FF3/S Sat Phone geolocation system (and ancillary items) from a UAE prime contractor for use on a surveillance aircraft to monitor critical infrastructure in the region. The order is valued at approximately £400,000 and delivery will take place in 2021 pending export approval. Horizon […]

Enhancing ISR Missions With Viasat’s New Dynamic Video Encoding Tech

Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has rolled out their Viasat Dynamic Video Encoding (DVE) capability, a new satellite communications (SATCOM) technology enhancement that optimizes sensor data for military aircraft on Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The new DVE capability allows aircraft to optimize their available bandwidth and video transmissions for high-speed, high-quality video feeds from […]