SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION

• SANTIAGO - Cognyte goes after Southern Cone market
  

• RIYADH - Positive Technologies eye Saudi Arabia despite US sanctions
  

• SAN FRANCISCO - US Coast Guard awards economic intel contract to Sayari

• CREIL - Artemis roll-out speeds up

• PARIS - RB 42 woos French companies for Singapore at Campus Cyber

• FORT MEADE - Khoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark as head of acquisitions at US CYBERCOM

• LONDON - Omri Lavie and Isaac Zack's cyber firm Orchestra Group closing UK subsidiary

• SAN FRANCISCO - FBI veteran Michael Morgan joins NightDragon

• TOULOUSE - Loft Orbital picks Frédéric Cristini

• WARSAW - Polish border guards renew maritime surveillance aircraft

• WASHINGTON - Former National Cyber Director Inglis joins CSC 2.0

• SINGAPORE - Grayshift partners with PCS Security
  

• PARIS - Ministry of interior's Cyber3 programme delayed
  

• PARIS - RB 42, European cyber ecosytem pioneer
  

• LUXEMBOURG - Arianespace's Vega-C launcher rocket leaves spy satellite in the lurch
  

• WASHINGTON/TAIPEI - Lobbying in Congress for cybersecurity rapprochement with Taiwan
  

NATO intelligence fears Russian access to Link 16 technology after Black Sea crash of Reaper drone 

Russia's recovery of certain strategic bricks - including optronics, satcom and Link 16 data - on the Reaper that crashed into the Black Sea last month could have a critical impact.

USCYBERCOM and USAID beef up European and Balkan cyber protection 

USAID is to launch a new programme to strengthen Ukrainian and Balkan cyber defences, an initiative that chimes with the US Cyber Command's partnerships forged in the region since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine.

• QUANTICO - ManTech, top provider to NCIS's Neptune Silo unit

• BRUSSELS/MADRID - Tecnobit to handle Galileo's second-generation secure communications

• WASHINGTON - Senate blurry on US Cyber Command's cyber intelligence operations

Biden's anti-spyware order spells trouble for Paragon 

In restricting the use of spyware across all federal agencies, especially software used by foreign governments, the US president's new executive order could make life difficult for the Israeli provider Paragon on the US market.

Air Force Research Laboratory seeks to cyberproof its electronic warfare sensors 

The US Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) strategic programme is looking to fill certain capability gaps in the area of electronic and cyber warfare. Air platforms and new subsystems resilient to the cyber threat and electromagnetic spectrum interference will be delivered by 2030.

• MOSCOW - NtechLab founders' distance from firm not so clean cut

• DUBAI/ROME - Italy's Secom opens door to Europe for Rakia Group 

• WASHINGTON - Israeli anti-drone specialist Convexum after voice in Congress 

• LYON - Interpol seeks to monitor the seas 

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Polish GEOINT firm SATIM eyes US market 

Mindful of a growing need to monitor vast contested maritime areas that are conducive to clandestine actions, SATIM is trying to sell its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image analysis tools in the US and Europe.

• PARIS - Cyber threat intelligence start-up Filigran set to launch fundraising operation
  

• AUGUSTA - Mark McLaughlin replaces Michael Rogers as Conceal's top adviser

• KYIV - Yegor Aushev's Institute of Cyberwarfare looks for partners
  

O'Neil Group carves niche in US cyber and space ecosystem 

As part of its plans to expand its defence portfolio, the US private equity firm O'Neil Group has carved a special role for itself in the US Space Force and US Air Force's incubator programmes, giving it access to the most promising startups.