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Viasat UK Ltd. provides security and communications expertise to deliver sovereign technologies to the UK defence and civilian markets.
BT has more than 20 years of experience under the UK MOD’s Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) contract providing highly secure, resilient connectivity and voice, data and video conferencing services to 2,000 MOD sites in the UK and overseas.
BT plc, NSSLGlobal Ltd and Viasat UK Ltd formed an alliance to deliver defence satellite communications (SATCOM) services and support modernisation of the UK defence and space sectors.
As part of the UK MOD’s Integrated User Services (IUS) contract, BT provides fixed and mobile voice services to hundreds of thousands of military personnel in the UK and globally.
The SDW programme will replace the current Skynet 5 contract that is scheduled to deliver SATCOM services to the UK MOD until August 2022.
Viasat UK Ltd provides security and communications expertise to deliver sovereign technologies to the UK defence and civilian markets.
The UK MOD launched the SDW competition on 5 November 2019 in support of the Skynet 6 programme.
The U.K. Ministry of Defence required contenders for the Skynet ground segment contract to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Viasat asked the UK Ministry of Defence and Government to create an agile, hybrid approach to acquire defence-based systems and services to address technology acceleration and rapidly changing adversarial threats.
Cobbett Hill Earth Station is located 40.2 km from London on land previously used by the British Ministry of Defence.
The British Ministry of Defence is uncertain Skynet 6 will keep pace with rapidly developing commercial satellite technology.
The U.K. Ministry of Defence is reluctant to commit to a single vendor for Skynet 6 because of concerns about creating a monopoly.
The U.K. Ministry of Defence will award Airbus a sole-source contract for one Skynet-6A geostationary communications satellite.
Airbus built four Skynet 5 spacecraft that were launched between 2007 and 2012 as part of a $4,700,000,000 private finance initiative with the U.K. Ministry of Defence covering procurement and operation of satellites and ground stations.
Viasat bought Horsebridge Defence and Security, a British defense company that deploys networks for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence.
Horsebridge Defence and Security developed relationships with the UK Armed Forces and supported a number of UK Ministry of Defence programmes.