Contract Signed for Airborne SIGINT Systems

Horizon Technologies has received a £3.7M contract for BlackFish airborne SIGINT systems for on manned rotary & fixed wing aircraft, UAVs, ships, terrestrial ground stations, & in space By Abi Wylie / 26 Jul 2024

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Contract Signed for Airborne SIGINT Systems
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Horizon Technologies has won a £3.7 Million contract for its BlackFish™ airborne SIGINT systems for a Middle East government customer, as announced on the first day of the Farnborough Air Show, Reading, UK. 

The UK-based company’s BlackFish technology geolocates and monitors L-band emitters such as SatPhones, and is the key to Horizon’s Multi-Domain Amber™ ISR Network Products. 

Horizon Technologies’ ISR technology is embedded as an ISR Node on manned aircraft (rotary and fixed wing), UAVs, ships, terrestrial ground stations (AmberPersistent™), and in space, on LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Amber SIGINT satellites.

Each domain offers unique advantages to government and non-government customers, and Horizon Technologies is the only commercial company which offers such a comprehensive, integrated, total ISR solution. 

Aircraft and naval solutions offer the advantages of quick reaction man-in-the-loop crews, UAV payloads offer long-duration missions, the upcoming Amber space-based constellation offers worldwide coverage, and ground-based AmberPersistent offers 24/7 ISR coverage over thousands of sq/km to cover sensitive strategic regions, and is already in operation with a FiveEyes user.

Horizon Technologies’ CEO John Beckner stated, “Our business continues to expand, and we are now selling our cutting-edge products into the FiveEyes community. Thanks to the generous support of the UK Space Agency, our Amber-2 (Phoenix Mission) satellite will be launched in early 2025, and several customers are already buying complementary AmberPersistent stations for persistent 24/7 SIGINT collection.

“The performance of our products in Ukraine and the Mid East has clearly shown the value of our sophisticated airborne SIGINT capabilities to provide real-time data to our NATO and Allied end-users. In the maritime world, we are offering customers unique RF signatures of commercial vessels to track ‘dark vessels’ who no longer use AIS at all times.” 

He continued, “Besides the scope and breadth of our solutions, we offer a variety of commercial options to customers: from the sale of hardware, to include ISR space-based payloads and even complete turn-key ISR satellite constellations, to worldwide ISR data via subscription.”

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