French arms suppliers have been told firmly by the government to "hunt in packs" in future instead of operating on their own. A number of sharp setbacks in recent months, many of them due to quarrels between the French themselves, [.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to kick off a major round of tests of commercial facial recognition technology in conjunction with various government agencies concerned by the issue.
French examining magistrate Philippe Courroye is pushing ahead with his probe into the U.N. oil-for-food case in which he has [...]
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The Polish parliament will shortly examine a draft bill putting paid to the existence of the Polish military intelligence agency [...]
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The Swiss intelligence agency Service de Renseignement Strategique (SRS) has been rocked by the publication of a fax sent by [...]
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Revealed by the Baltimore Sun, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's decision in June to find a replacement for James Clapper as head of the NGA reflected a power struggle between Rumsfeld and John Negroponte.
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It took a good 18 months for a scandal indirectly pitting Japan against China to suddenly surface: the suicide of an encoder at the Japanese consulate in Shanghai.
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The French Falcon aircraft operated by Revolutionary Guards (Pasdarans) that crashed on Jan. 9 in north-west Iran was en route to Syria to pursue strategic accords between Damascus and Tehran. Sabotage cannot be ruled out.
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China's new foreign policy has dictated that Beijing put a halt to backing guerrilla movements inspired by Mao, particularly in South East Asia and the Indian sub-continent.
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Living in exile in Paris, former Syrian vice president Abdulhalim Khaddam has emerged as the spokesman for a group determined to overthrow Bashar al Assad.
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After a series of trials, the Defense Information Systems Agency [...]
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Under its project known as America’s Shield Initiative (ASI), the [...]
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In a move marking the French government's growing interest in [...]
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Highly successful in the U.S. since its outset in 2003, [...]
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A pioneer in facial recognition, Viisage, is intent on becoming an integrated biometrics company under the leadership of its new stakeholder, the L1 Investment Partners equity fund.
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Founded in Paris and acquired last year by Japan's Jastec computer services group, the French image mining company LTU Technologies is counting on ex attorney general John Ashcorft to help it advance in the U.S.
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Political risk consultants have jumped into an argument between Lloyd's of London and ship owners on how to qualify acts of piracy in the straits of Malacca.
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Several prominent figures have just joined Hakluyt, the most discreet of private British intelligence firms.
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The former armaments agency Sofema Groupe is taking on four men from an elite French police unit to flesh out its security division.
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Founded by former workers for Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Internet Pictures and [...]
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At the behest of the Department of Homeland Security, the [...]
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Number two official at the Britain's Serious Fraud Office for [...]
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Highly active in Iraq, the private military concern Triple Canopy [...]
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The American army has signed a contract with a small Detroit public relations company, Haas MS&L, that specializes in publishing [...]
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Founded in 2001 by a group of former British special operations soldiers, the private security firm Olive Security changed its [...]
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After serving for seven years as the defense ministry's representative at the French finance ministry, Didier Lallemand has been named [...]
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Close to president Hosni Mubarak and director of the Egyptian [...]
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In the wake of an Intelligence Online article published on [...]
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Previously in charge of national cyber security at the Department [...]
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A partner in the British investment bank Compass Advisers since [...]
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