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SPOTLIGHT

Information Analysis

French Seek to Foster Information Industry

Long starved of public funding, groups specializing in information analysis technology have been ardently wooed since the end of last year by the French government, which has decided to finance several major projects in the field (Quaero search engine, the Infom@gic project, Bibliotheque Numerique Europeenne (European Digital Library). (...) [ 726 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

washington : CIA Sets its Technology Priorities for 2006 [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

armaments
A Head Rolls at Sofresa
	Michel Mazens has been replaced as boss of the Sofresa armaments agency by Bruno Cotte. (...) [ 183 words ] [ €5 ]

espionage
Final Twist to Mongolian Mystery
	It may come as a surprise to some but Mongolia’s secret service is highly active in Europe. The French have just learned what happened to the victim of a mysterious kidnapping in Le Havre in May 2003. (...) [ 299 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

lisbon
Dario Carreira
	Portugal’s Socialist government that swept to power a year ago has named general Dario Fernandes de Morais Carreira as the deputy director of the country’s foreign intelligence agency, Servico de Informacoes Estrategicas de Defesa (SIED) as part of a shake-up of the intelligence community. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran/damascus
Mohamad H. Akhtari
	After serving for 12 years as Iran’s ambassador to Damascus starting from 1986, Mohamad Hassan Akhtari has just taken up the same post he left in 1998. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €1,5 ]

intelligence
The DNI’s Four Managers
	John Negroponte has just named two “mission managers” for North Korea and Iran. Two others have already been appointed for counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism. (...) [ 394 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

washington
The Way Clapper Sees It
	The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has disclosed its short-term agenda in a report entitled “2005 Statement of Strategic Intent.” Drafted by the NGA’s director, general James Clapper, as part of the agency’s National System for Geospatial-Intelligence program, the report announced the formation of a Geospatial-Intelligence Knowledge Base (GKB), a huge data base that will serve as a reference book for all intelligence agencies involved in the geo-space field. (...) [ 185 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Serbia’s “Dear Criminals”
	For the first time, a book due to be published by the Flammarion house in Paris on Feb. 24 (ISBN 2-08-068729-8) has cast light on the secrets of France’s 10-year-long hunt for war criminals from ex-Yugoslavia. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

annapolis (Maryland)
Breeding Ground Produces a Winner
	Linked to the National Security Agency (NSA), the Chesapeake Innovation Center which provides seed money for new technology firms can pat itself on the back. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €5 ]

sanctions
Iran Seeks Safer Home for its Money
	In response to the threat of sanctions, Tehran has begun taking a number of “strategic” measures. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

military intelligence
French Military Economical with Truth
	Head of the French military intelligence agency DRM since July, 2005, general Michel Masson was the service’s first chief to be questioned in a judicial inquiry. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

FRANCE - Encryption - Paris Buys European System

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LOOKING AHEAD

Moscow - Day and Night Drones

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Paris - Multi-Sensor Images

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Tehran - Turkish Snub

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	washington
	Foreign Hand in Pentagon Software?
		The Pentagon is worried about foreigners exercising influence over the software it uses and has asked the Defense Science Board to form a task force to inquire into the matter. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

	washington
	Hard Bargaining on Offsets
		The Department of Commerce has begun consulting with countries that buy American defense equipment in the hope of curbing offset programs. (...) [ 205 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

washington
GlobalOptions Wins Big Names With Takeover
	The U.S. investigative and security firm GlobalOptions has just bought out James Lee Witt Associates, a company founded by the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), James Witt, for $6 million. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Managing Health Emergencies
	After the SARS epidemic in 2003, the current bird flu scare has given rise to fresh requirements in big multinational companies and a number of companies have stepped forward to meet them. (...) [ 220 words ] [ €5 ]

washington
New Members for Network Centric Organization
	Formed to hammer out standards to allow the military's network centric warfare concept to be applied to civil areas (security, crisis management but also industrial processes), the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) has just opened its doors to five new members. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €5 ]

chicago
Aon Poaches MMC Men
	The U.S. insurance broker Aon has just poached two executives from Kroll, Roger Siefert and Jerry Barbanel, in order to set up a financial investigation division. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €5 ]

	paris
	A Computer Security Agency?
		With strong nudging from legislator Pierre Lasbordes, the French government is expected to completely overhaul France’s computer security system. (...) [ 448 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

beijing
Serge Dumont
	A lynchpin for French corporations in China, Serge Dumont, has been named president of Asia division of the U. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €1,5 ]

washington
Tom Bank
	Former deputy administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an offshoot of the Department of Homeland Security, Tom Blank took up work last September with the lobbying concern Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates. (...) [ 198 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	washington
	Blimps an Alternative to UAVs?
		Blimps are coming into wider use in civil and military surveillance operations because they are cheap and easy to carry around. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

	paris
	Biometrics at Airports
		The French interior ministry and the Paris airport authority - Aeroports de Paris - are working on installing biometrics equipment at the French capital’s two airports. (...) [ 298 words ] [ €5 ]