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Serco, a key subcontractor in international F-35 negotiations

The Pentagon office responsible for F-35 fighter jet maintenance, operations and exports is relying on British military services giant Serco. The firm has recruited veterans of the arms sales business to ensure the aircraft's export success.

Cyberspecialist Rakia Group steps up US expansion

The Israeli-Emirati firm headed by Omri Raiter, former CEO of Senpai Technologies, has set up a US subsidiary backed by sector heavyweights.

In Chicago, new round between short-selling company Viceroy and corporate intelligence firms

Viceroy is seeking documents from an accountancy firm to prove that its 2023 reports of fraud at Medical Properties Trust were true. Steward Healthcare, MPT's accomplice in the fraud, is said to have hired Audere to monitor the short seller's co-founder, Fraser Perrings.

Oleg Deripaska's intelligence consultants seek to limit evidence of Russian links at trial

Former Soviet Diplomat Sergey Shestakov, who was charged alongside ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal for allegedly carrying out work for Oleg Deripaska, is seeking to ensure allegations of his links to Russian intelligence don't play a role in the trial.

Spotlight
Microsoft, Google, Palantir seek Ukraine deals to capture local technologies

The three US tech companies were busy at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war supplying turnkey tools to Ukrainian forces. Now they are trying to forge partnerships or invest in local players in order to capture technologies developed locally.

Florida aviation firm wins contract with Ecuador's Ministry of National Defense

Matrix Aviation will help the South American country implement new strategies to help combat increased drug trafficking.

Congress tasks Washington's China experts to review Beijing's influence in Abu Dhabi

Concerns about Microsoft's deal with the UAE's G42 have led Congress to ask the intelligence community's top analysts to explore how the partnership could benefit Beijing. The mission is another test for Washington's intelligence experts on China.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Charles River Associates, StoneTurn, JS Held

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonCharles River Associates reshuffle

New YorkStoneTurn snaps up new health sector contract

JerichoDoJ extends mystery contract with JS Held

Crimson Phoenix, a key US intelligence player in tracking Russian forces

The Defense Intelligence Agency relies on a Virginia-based cyber company for day-to-day monitoring of the war in Ukraine.

Behind the scenes of Kazakh asset managers feud playing out in US and UK courts

Fraud, stolen confidential data, libel... Accusations have been flying back and forth between the former and current directors of a set of companies with assets in Kazakhstan. Things are particularly heated between Yerbol Orynbayev, who served as deputy prime minister under former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Ron Wahid, owner of several consultancies that worked for Astana for years.

Thor Dynamics aims to revolutionise anti-drone warfare in Ukraine

Thor is testing its anti-drone equipment in Ukraine, combining artificial intelligence and next-generation laser technologies. The US firm aims to bring about a paradigm shift in this sector on the Ukrainian battlefield.

The Agencies' Gazette
New tandem in European Parliament, US bill for Georgia, SISSE boss under fire, bonuses frozen in Beijing

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

EuropeChristophe Gomart reconstitutes his military intelligence tandem in parliament

United StatesBill in support of Georgia mobilises intelligence agencies

FranceSenators grill SISSE economic security agency boss

ChinaOfficials' bonuses frozen in name of ‘common prosperity'

The Tech Telegraph
Chengdu 404's hiring spree, Siren at NYPD, RAID buys Chinese drones

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

ChengduChengdu 404's hiring spree

New YorkSiren makes its mark with NYPD

ParisRAID buys Chinese FPV drones ahead of Olympics

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
FTI Consulting, Salus Global, Trenchcoat Advisors

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

WashingtonFTI files another complaint against a former investigator

LondonMet vet Richard Hammond opens new consultancy

WashingtonTrenchcoat loses a key player

Talent wars: FTI Consulting combines direct legal action and behind-the-scenes arrangements

FTI Consulting is haemorrhaging staff to hungry rival Secretariat and is taking legal action against it. In many similar cases, FTI has managed to reach agreement with other firms.