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France, Iran, Ireland
Former hostage in Iran highlights French government failings

Bernard Phelan, a French-Irish national who was imprisoned for eight months in Vakilabad Prison in northern Iran, praises the speed and logistical capacity of French operations in the Middle East, but says the ministry of foreign affairs was hardly interested in him after his release.

United States
Dustin Carmack, the Meta boss who wrote Project 2025's radical intelligence reform plan

The new, controversial, right-wing political initiative to extend the authority of the US president includes plans to increase centralisation of intelligence powers in the hands of the Director of National Intelligence. This will be to the detriment of the CIA, deemed to be insufficiently loyal.

Lithuania, Ukraine, United States
Lithuanian NGO signs agreement with former naval officer to get military supplies to Ukraine

Blue/Yellow, which has been delivering supplies to the frontlines, will lean on William Manofsky for discussions in Congress.

UAE, United States
Ex-Pentagon officer doxxed over Ukraine arms trade returns to Abu Dhabi

After being exposed on the internet as having supplied weapons to Ukraine, former Pentagon official Shanon Schmidli-Melville has secured a new role as head of UAE military equipment and training provider, Al Shamal Solutions Consultancy.

The Tech Telegraph
EDA underwater drones undergo final tests, UXMachines arms AUKUS drones, SecurCube in Dubai

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

GdyniaEU runs final tests on underwater ISR project SABUVIS II

PerthUXMachines algorithms used on AUKUS drones

DubaiItaly's SecurCube scouts for contracts in the UAE