About us

1999

Building off John Beckner’s work in Washington, DC for the US House of Representatives and for Teledyne Industries Inc. in Brussels, Belgium, Horizon Technologies was founded. Clients include L3Harris, Raytheon Technologies, BAES, Telephonics, etc. and products spanned from NVGs, radars to fully equipped ISR aircraft. Tens of Millions of dollars in business for its clients.

2012

As part of marketing efforts for clients in South Africa, CEO John Beckner was involved in South Africa’s attempt to combat maritime piracy. Beckner had the idea of a dual-use commercial passive airborne SIGINT system to geolocate and monitor Sat Phones. This concept turned into a product: FlyingFish™.

2013

First sales of FlyingFish™ to a NATO end-user.

2015

Due to the hard work by Horizon’s marketing team, 2^nd Generation of FlyingFish™ enters the market, and first sales to a Middle East customer.

2016

R&D starts into Xtender concept whereby the RF portion of FlyingFish™ is remoted into an SDR. This will later form the basis of Amber™

2017

Yearly FlyingFish sales grow to £3 Million per year. Reading facility is expanded to a full text and support centre. 3^rdGeneration of FlyingFish™ enters the market.

2018

First sales on NATO rotary-wing aircraft, and partnership with Linwave Ltd. in Lincoln as our technology partner and manufacturing centre.

Horizon is awarded an £600k IUK Grant for the development of a data processing centre (Amber™ Data Centre) for spaced-based SIGINT data.

2019

Horizon wins the Satellite Applications Catapult IOD-3 / Amber™ Programme as a joint public/private partnership with the UK Government to launch Horizon’s first Amber™ SIGINT CubeSat in 2023.

2020

Horizon’s FlyingFish™ sales increase to £4m annually

Horizon’s engineering team starts development of an all-new hardware product; BlackFish™ to eventually replace FlyingFish™.

2021

Horizon completes its Series A investment with Maven Capital Partners in May.

BlackFish™ development is complete, and first sales are announced.

2022

Horizon’s Amber-1 CubeSat was lost on the Virgin Orbit UK launch in January. In 2023, Horizon received a £1.2 Million grant from the UK Space Agency for Amber-2 to replace the lost satellite and payload. Amber-2 is scheduled for launch in 2025.

2024

Horizon’s business expanded exponentially in 2024. Horizon was awarded contracts totaling than $10 Million for terrestrial AmberPersistent payloads for 24/7 real-time intelligence collection around strategic chokepoints worldwide. These customers include US and UK Government end users. These systems will be integrated into the Amber™ network in 2025 when space-based data becomes available.