UNITED STATES : Thiel carves niche in US intelligence imagery

FRANCE GERMANY 24/10/2018

DGSI and BKA get into big data

The German and French internal intelligence services are keen to get on with mining the masses of data they possess. [...]

UNITED STATES FRANCE 26/09/2018

Palantir nabs Fabrice Bregier

According to our sources, the US data mining firm Palantir is poised to hire Fabrice Bregier, the former number two [...]

ISRAEL UNITED STATES 29/08/2018

Thiel supports Ehud Barak's startup Carbyne

The Israeli startup Carbyne, which previously went by the name [...]

FRANCE 27/06/2018

Bernard Emie Hobnobs with Karp and Thiel at Bilderberg

After Patrick Calvar performed similar duties in 2015 (IOL 737), [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 13/06/2018

New Space revolution a blow to French GEOINT companies

The shake-up of the satellite imagery market that started in the US is making its effects felt on the French Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) sector. [...]

UNITED STATES 11/04/2018

Pentagon caught between Bezos, Koch brothers Free

The Pentagon is due to finalise its tender for the contract to store and manage data in the cloud, under [...]

UNITED STATES 28/03/2018

DSS, Trump's watchdog against Chinese investment

The Defense Security Service (DSS), the Pentagon's counter-intelligence service, launched a tender in February to externalise the analysis of data [...]

FRANCE 14/03/2018

Amazon puts ANSSI to the test

Amazon Web Services (AWS), which does a lot of work for the Pentagon and the US intelligence community (IOL 791), [...]

UNITED STATES QATAR 28/02/2018

Palantir plants flag in Doha

Palantir, the US intelligence community's big data darling, has its [...]

Spotlight CHINA 17/01/2018

Xi Jingping wants to finance and develop optical observation satellites.

Beijing pursues plan to dominate GEOINT sector

China intends to profit from the shake-up in the satellite imagery sector in Western countries to get its hands on American know-how and develop its own capacities. [...]

UNITED STATES 20/09/2017

Intelligence community urges Congress to renew Section 702

Senior U.S. intelligence leaders are asking Congress to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before it expires [...]

UNITED STATES 06/09/2017

Despite Trump, Congress builds cyberdefence against Russia

Although the White House continues to play down the role of Russian interference in the US elections last year, the [...]

Special report UNITED STATES 09/08/2017

Peter Thiel has become Trump's principal technology adviser.

Thiel is Trump's intelligence guru

Peter Thiel, who was the only Silicon Valley entrepreneur to support Donald Trump during the presidential election campaign, has become the American president's principal unofficial technology adviser, particularly with regard [...]

UNITED STATES EUROPE 05/07/2017

Sale of DigitalGlobe may cool GEOINT speculation

Canada's MDA is struggling to finalise its acquisition of DigitalGlobe while funds have also dried up for new companies in the GEOINT sector, suggesting a slowdown in what used to be a feverish marketplace. [...]

UNITED STATES 24/05/2017

Planet ever closer to the NGA

The geospatial intelligence startup has been contracted to supply US intelligence with imagery from Syria and Iraq, Iran and North Korea. [...]

FRANCE 24/05/2017

Dataiku, French firm, seeks to rival Palantir

Specializing in processing huge amounts of data and predictive algorithms, the French firm Dataiku is increasingly positioning itself to vie [...]

UNITED STATES 24/05/2017

Peter Thiel, who's close to Trump, seeks to share Palantir and SpaceX with Gulfe

Thiel seeks to share Palantir and SpaceX with Gulf

According to our sources, several investment funds in the Gulf, and particularly those run by states, have been approached by [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 24/05/2017

May played Trump card to sack GCHQ chief

The sudden departure of Robert Hannigan as head of GCHQ, [...]

UNITED STATES 26/04/2017

Ex-Ashton Carter aide goes to amazon

Iram Ali, who was former US Secretary of Defense Ashton [...]

UNITED STATES 05/04/2017

SpaceX beefs up its security

SpaceX, the start-up that builds space launchers for Elon Musk, [...]

FRANCE 05/04/2017

DGSI gets new technical director

Patrick Guyonneau has been appointed to head the technical department [...]

CHINA UNITED STATES 05/04/2017

FBI makes very political arrest

The arrest of US diplomat Candace Marie Claiborne by the [...]

UNITED STATES 22/03/2017

NSA sheds light on technology transfer to the private sector

The latest issue of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) quarterly [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2017

Peter Thiel has big GEOINT 2.0 plans

The Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump supporter has been advancing his pawns in the low-cost observation satellite business. [...]

FRANCE 23/11/2016

The DGSI

The DGSI, France's internal intelligence service, has finally signed a [...]

FRANCE 26/10/2016

DGSI courts Palantir

The French internal intelligence service, which is completely overwhelmed by the fight against terrorism in France, has turned to the US data mining specialist for help. [...]

UNITED STATES 01/06/2016

Google's wings clipped by shutter control

Having burst onto the Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) scene a year ago, Google and others newcomers in the market have since bowed down to the federal government. [...]

UNITED STATES 18/05/2016

The NGA

The NGA is pursuing its policy of greater openness to [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 04/11/2015

NGA opens arms to private sector

Robert Cardillo, the director of the National Geospatial-intelligence Agency (NGA), is looking to revolutionise the agency's relationship with the burgeoning GEOINT private sector. The agency recently published its new strategy with regard to new companies in the sector (see here). [...]

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Thiel carves niche in US intelligence imagery

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