Surveillance & Interception

The Tech Times
France's DGSE turns to LLM, US cracks down on cyber industry, Preligens' Rennes changes

Paris
French intelligence service focuses on Large Language Models

Washington
Congress ponders cyber-intelligence sanctions

Rennes
Preligens restructures ahead of funding round

The Tech Times
Snowpack goes global, Beacon Red in Singapore, MIL Corp helps NAWCAD in cyber

Paris
Snowpack turns to RB 42 for international business development

Singapore
Beacon Red showcases offensive cyber technologies

Washington
NAWCAD draws on MIL Corp's cyber expertise

United States
Operators break silence on observation satellite wipe outs

Operators are starting to have to publicly address the damaging impact of solar flair activity on their observation satellites, an issue that Intelligence Online revealed in June. A financial headache is set to follow that flurry of solar storms.

China, United States
US prepares Earth Observation operators to compete with China

Touted as a circumstantial decision, Washington's 7 August announcement that it is lifting restrictions on commercialising high-resolution satellite images is actually a move to shake up the trade and technology rivalry between the US and China in the sector.

Spotlight | Russia, United States
US and Russia's ghost fleets face off in deep waters

Two secret units, one run by the US and the other by Russia, are engaged in atypical hybrid warfare deep beneath the surface of the ocean.

United Kingdom, United States
US-focused Control Risks sees predictive AI partner Seerist gain stride

GEOINT, OSINT, interceptions, software packages: the British corporate intelligence provider Control Risks Group's Virginia-based partner Seerist has been growing in strength through the hire of private and ex-government US intelligence experts.

United States
The Pentagon's major image processing project Maven makes budget comeback

After seven years in the making, Project Maven - a military artificial intelligence project dedicated to image processing - is in better health after the NGA took over the helm.

Russia, United States
Cyber Threat Intelligence, the latest geopolitical battleground

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky's report on Operation Triangulation is indicative of the increasing popularity of using CTI for political influence.

Israel, United States
Crackdown on cyber intelligence spells boon for lobbyists in Washington

As the US government becomes increasingly heavy-handed with trade restrictions and sanctions on cyber intelligence providers, companies in the field are increasingly turning to lobbyists.

The Tech Times
French border police go airborne, Air Attack and CARBON 01 in Ouagadougou, Kosiba back after bracket f downfall

Paris
Border police keen for airborne surveillance

Ouagadougou
Air Attack Technologies and CARBON 01's Africa goals align

Washington
Ex-Computer Network Operations' Kosiba lands on his feet

The Tech Times
Cobwebs/Spire Capital, Kleos Space, AFRL's ISR sensor, Resecurity in Dubai, Wide Int

Herzliya/New York
Now part of Spire Capital, Cobwebs looks to US market

Luxembourg
Kleos loses head of innovation

Rome/New York
AFRL updates ISR sensors for Skyborg drones

Dubai
US threat intel firm Resecurity uses SAT seller to set up home

Paris
Deveryware successor Wide Int sorts out its new line-up

Europe, Finland, United States
Finland takes lead in European strategic space industry

Having abandoned its neutrality in the face of Russia's war on Ukraine, Finland is making its mark in intelligence and space technology. After the rise to prominence of ICEYE, a second Finnish geospatial intelligence company, Kuva Space, is entering orbit.

The Tech Times
Tesseract Intelligence in UAE, DARPA's underwater acoustic sensors, Skyral Defence

Abu Dhabi
Bulgaria's Tesseract Intelligence sets sights on UAE via Pegasus

United States
DARPA seeking to develop new acoustic sensor for deep-sea surveillance

London
NOIA Capital makes adjustments at new firm specialised in VR training platforms

Israel, United States
Israeli OSINT specialist Ultra launches sales drive in North America

Israeli open source intelligence (OSINT) company Ultra has called in Canadian company Wellington Advocacy to lead a charm offensive in the United States - just as Washington is tightening control over Israeli technical intelligence service providers.