The high visibility of ambassador John Negroponte who took over in April as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in the American media shouldn’t overshadow the powerful administrative service his principle deputy (DDNI), Air Force general Michael Hayden, is putting together.
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James Langdon’s mandate as chairman of PFIAB was short by any standards. Named in February, 2005, Langdon, a lawyer specializing [...]
A cabinet re-shuffle carried out by prime minister Junichiro Koizumi on Oct. 25 produced a government that is strongly nationalist [...]
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Small is decidedly beautiful when it comes to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Canadian military plans to buy tiny UAVs [...]
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Despite opposition from NATO, Poland’s new conservative prime minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, is planning to disband the military intelligence agency Wojskowych [...]
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The German intelligence agencies BfV and BND are only too happy to see the back of colonel Zhang Chantai who served at Beijing's embassy in Berlin. They considered him a lynchpin in Chinese technological espionage in Germany.
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Subsidized by EADS, a 100-page report issued by the CSIS made 50 recommendations on integrating Europe's defenses and bolstering Transatlantic ties.
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Siding with Damascus, Iran is intent on helping Syria by launching new offensives on the West Bank and in Iraq.
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The threat of cutbacks in major American defense programs has given rise to revelations about the capability of new and future fighter aircraft. Such information was classified up to now.
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Investment by France's DGSE intelligence agency is going to rise by 16% in 2006, to nearly EUR120 million.
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The Saudi regime is likely to come up for a [...]
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The head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, [...]
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During a debate of the French parliament's defense committee on [...]
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Examining the intelligence budget for next year, the Senate's Committee [...]
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The French defense ministry has made a complete about face by dropping public key infrastructure (PKI) offered by a U.S. firm and choosing a French solution.
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Europe has saved its Galileo system but the fight to play host to its ground facilities is in full swing.
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After working for years with American go-betweens, the state-controlled Belarus armaments firm Beltechexport now counts on French partners.
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In a report entitled "The Strategist State" that will shortly be published, the French think tank CEPS is recommending reforms aimed at improving the State's effectiveness.
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The commission appointed by Kofi Annan to look into the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq called on several private firms for assistance.
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On the eve of its listing on the London Stock [...]
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After a lot of humming and hawing (IOL 499), the [...]
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In a hearing before the Transport Security Administration (TSA) organized [...]
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The EPC Global association, which was formed by a number [...]
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Mike Welton, former boss of the British engineering giant Balfour Beatty and now chief of the Hanson construction group, joined [...]
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Founded in 1997 by John Davidson, a former British special forces officer, Rubicon has been acquired by Aegis Defense Service, [...]
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Founded in 1999 and specializing in defense and homeland security questions, the Hill Solutions lobbying concern has just be acquired [...]
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In our article on Oct. 28 on the Institut d’Etudes et de Recherche pour la Securite des Entreprises (IERSE), we [...]
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Appointed armed forces chief-of-staff by president Hosni Mubarak on Oct. [...]
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Barely a year after being named principal deputy director of [...]
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Former director for reconstruction and infrastructure at the Coalition Provisional [...]
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The U.S. investigative firm Diligence has just hired a long-serving [...]
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