The new priority of the U.S. intelligence community since Sept. 11, 2001 is "connecting the dots." That, at any rate, is the basic premise of a 155-page study the Rand Corporation has just published under the title:
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The major presence of firms "coddled" by In-Q-Tel in the architecture of the Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing (ASAP) system could demonstrate the logic behind the CIA's investment policy.
In the past year the CIA has managed to organize the defection of members of North Korea's nomenclatura, often from Japan. That has embarrassed Tokyo because the prime minister is negotiating anew with Kim Jong-il.
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France, Spain and Belgium will launch the second-generation military observation satellite on Dec. 10. It will be accompanied by four French ESSAIM demonstrator satellites destined to pave the way for a future signals intelligence program.
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A leading supplier of the Saudi Arabian Navy since 1980, SAIC has just won a new C4I contract from Riyadh.
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Announced on Nov. 20, the lifting of the U.S. embargo on arms sales to Pakistan was preceded by a house-cleaning at the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
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The hardcore of Iraq's Ba'ath party, which has banded together in a "High Resistance Command," has held several secret meetings in Aleppo, Syria in recent weeks.
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The boss of the French armaments agency SOFRESA, Michel Mazens, [...]
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The High Command of the Iraqi Resistance, which recently met [...]
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Is the auditing of foreign companies listed in the United [...]
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The numerous business ties of Neelie Kroes, the European Union's [...]
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Reported by Intelligence Online in October (IOL 486), the buy-out of The Risk Advisory Group (TRAG) by its management took [...]
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What started as a partnership agreement in July between SOFEMA, a French armaments agency that specializes in aeronautics equipment, and [...]
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Jean-Christophe Adler has left the firm Communication & Institutions, a lobbying concern headed by Olivier Le Picard, to launch a [...]
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After operating at length against Telecom Italia, one of Italy's biggest group, Kroll has found new favor in the country by investigating Parmalat's collapse.
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Senator John McCain's inquiry into the tanker aircraft contract awarded to Boeing has shed light on how the U.S. group seeks to gain influence in Washington.
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All of France's regions will be expected by the end of next year to have formed strategic committees to draft "territorial intelligence" programs.
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Two French groups are strongly in the running for important contracts to assess the reserves of the Kirkuk and Rumaila oil fields.
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A lobbying campaign by several big corporations has forced Britain's export credit guarantee agency to change its anti-corruption rules.
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Three French public and private firms have formed a partnership [...]
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The U.S. bank Morgan Stanley is due this week to [...]
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Officials from Boeing traveled to Baghdad last month to meet [...]
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Various associations that represent business intelligence professionals in France have [...]
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Since the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) was transformed a year ago into the National Geospatiale Agency (NGA) the [...]
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Heads are likely to roll at the German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) because of a scandal over its recruitment [...]
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In a memo to Porter Goss, president George W. Bush gave the new CIA director 90 days to prepare and [...]
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Close to George Bush Sr., David Bates has been named [...]
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Accused late last month by the Daily Mail of being [...]
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The all-powerful chief of staff to Muammar Khadafi, Bashir Salah, [...]
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Named intelligence chief for the Iranian armed forces on Oct. [...]
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