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GEOINT transfer season, Yahal Zilka invested in Toka, John Finbarr Fleming at Paragon

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.

WashingtonGlobal GEOINT musical chairs

Tel AvivYahal Zilka invests in Toka

WashingtonEx-CIA officer John Finbarr Fleming joins Paragon's US branch

Australia, France, India, Japan, United States
Space surveillance market boosted by arrival of Indo-Pacific operators

Once carried out from the ground according to national needs, the surveillance of objects in orbit has become the subject of increased competition between states and the companies they back in a rapidly evolving market, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.

United States
NRO heavyweight joins Stellar to boost interception satellite programmes

Chad Davis has joined Stellar Solutions, a service provider to the agency that operates US intelligence satellites and that has also set up a fund to invest in key players in the geospatial intelligence industry.

United States
Pentagon brings its geospatial intelligence operators back in line

The leading Earth observation company Maxar Intelligence, whose satellite launches have been repeatedly delayed, has tightened its focus to keep in line with the Pentagon. The company's shift mirrors changes in the US Defense Department's entire strategy, which is driving consolidation in the sector.

China
Mystery Chinese space objects intrigue Washington

Beijing's launch of its 'Divine Dragon' spaceplane is raising eyebrows in the intelligence community over the possible dual purpose of the satellites it has put into orbit.

Ukraine
Kyiv in search of SAR imagery for winter

Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite images are key to the winter war currently being waged on the snow-covered plains of south-eastern Ukraine.

Spotlight | China, United States
China plays dumb over satellite data pilfering

Most of the major space powers are developing "sniffer" satellite capabilities, meaning they can spy on other devices in orbit. China, however, has been keeping mum about its breakthroughs in that field.

Russia, Ukraine
Russia hits commercial SAR constellations with jamming storm

Moscow is waging jamming attacks on synthetic aperture radar satellite constellations with the hopes it disrupts a crucial source of intelligence for the Ukrainian services.

Poland
GEOINT start-up SATIM catches NATO's eye

NATO is sorely lacking in radar satellite imagery analysis capacities and is testing Polish start-up SATIM's data merger products as an option to help remedy the situation.

China, Europe, United States
Disruptive weather ahead, part 3: the private sector takes position

Against the backdrop of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and rivalries in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic, having sovereign weather capabilities is once again a priority for Beijing and Washington as they can leverage the data with their allies.

United States
SeerAI start-up eyes US agencies' growing climate intelligence needs

With climate intelligence now a political priority for the United States, GEOINT industry veteran Jeremy Fand is stepping up plans to develop his spatial temporal analytics and data fusion start-up.

Israel
Israel maps Gaza's underground using SAR and Lidar

Tel Aviv is deploying all its intelligence resources to map Hamas's tunnels, a major challenge if Israel is to neutralise the Islamist group's offensive capabilities.

Finland, Ukraine
Ukraine boosts SAR capacities in readiness for Russia's winter offensive

With the Russian winter offensive imminent, Ukraine is deploying new SAR imagery tools.