{"id":64947,"date":"2018-06-13T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-expands-its-uk-play-with-new-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:32:03","slug":"viasat-expands-its-uk-play-with-new-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-expands-its-uk-play-with-new-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Expands its UK Play with New Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viasat<\/strong> has acquired&nbsp;<strong>Horsebridge Defence and Security<\/strong>, a U.K.-based company focused on design, system integration and support of deployable secure networks. Through this acquisition,&nbsp;the Viasat&nbsp;U.K. group gains deeper military communications integration expertise, enabling growth in the U.K. defence market by delivering mission-critical ground-based communication networks and services.<\/p>\n<p>From their U.K.-base in&nbsp;Cheltenham, Horsebridge Defence and Security have developed relationships with the <strong>U.K. Armed Forces<\/strong>, supporting a number of <strong>U.K.<\/strong> <strong>Ministry of Defense<\/strong> programs.<\/p>\n<p>The Horsebridge Defence and Security team will be integrated into Viasat\u2019s Farnborough-based organization, and will have immediate access to Viasat\u2019s full communications portfolio, from the satellite communication and Link 16 mobile networking solutions, to its cybersecurity and information assurance capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Horsebridge Defence and Security develops and integrates technologies under its Kestrel II-branded services portfolio, offering a range of complementary secure network products, solutions and services that are specifically targeted at the U.K. defense requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat has acquired&nbsp;Horsebridge Defence and Security, a U.K.-based company focused on design, system integration and support of deployable secure networks. Through this acquisition,&nbsp;the Viasat&nbsp;U.K. group gains deeper military communications integration expertise, enabling growth in the U.K. defence market by delivering mission-critical ground-based communication networks and services. From their U.K.-base in&nbsp;Cheltenham, Horsebridge Defence and Security have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}