United Kingdom
Satellite Applications Catapult also boosts Britain's satellite intelligence industry

United Kingdom
London continues to pick Europe and US for its space projects

The British Space Agency’s (UKSA) announcement on 23 July of a new round of contracts, worth a total of £33m (€39m), confirms the UK's initial geopolitical orientation following the arrival of the Labour government.

The Tech Telegraph
Cyber investor Andre Pienaar in Kyiv, Horizon keeps space goals alive, Hawaii's D7 in Doha

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

KyivCyber investor André Pienaar visits Ukraine

LondonHorizon readies for round two after failed satellite launch

DohaHawaii's D7 to boost Qatar F-15s' cyber capacities

United Kingdom
Geopolitics weigh on UK space observation ambitions

Despite a clear intention to return to large-scale space projects, the UK has struggled to make real gains in the area. That is in no small part due to the country hesitating between its geopolitical options of either a partnership with Europe or teaming up with the US.

United States
Spire exploits third party data for its Dynamic AIS system

In the wake of its stock market listing, AIS satellite ship monitoring firm Spire has partially lifted the lid on how it obtains data for its Dynamic AIS system.

India
Agents prepped for Leonardo's return to India

The lifting of India's ban on Italian defence giant Leonardo on 12 November has sparked all of the providers and partners it had in the country back into action.

Europe, France, UAE
Key Technologies takes environmental route to supply interception tools to the UAE

Financed by Catalyst, Abu Dhabi's environment-focused fund, Key Technologies, based in the UAE and Greece, markets and develops border surveillance and interception solutions.

United States
HawkEye scores first US space-based SIGINT contracts

The US radio frequency signals specialist has been selected to provide its data to the US geospatial intelligence agency NGA and work with Space Force as competition in the sector heats up.

United States
Spire makes move into space SIGINT

After a stock market listing and the acquisition of its AIS monitoring rival, Spire is looking to enter the race to geolocate ships through radio frequency SIGINT via satellite.

United Kingdom
QinetiQ paints new page of GEOINT Picasso project

QinetiQ has been picked to take on the Picasso Aeronautical Information Capability project, one of the components of the vast Picasso programme set up to improve the British ministry of defence's GEOINT capabilities.

United States
GEOINT startup Theia's disgruntled supplier starts legal action

Keen to launch a large constellation of observation satellites for the intelligence community and other clients, the startup Theia has run into difficulties with a key supplier who is still waiting to be paid.

United States
Obama's GEOINT chiefs pursue private roles while waiting in the wings

Key geospatial intelligence chiefs who rose to prominence during the Obama administration, when James Clapper was Director of National Intelligence, are now working in the private sector while they await the outcome of next year's presidential elections.

United Kingdom, United States
Intelligence agencies think outside the box with SIGINT CubeSats

The RF detection and geolocation capabilities integrated in these mini-satellites, sought after for lower production costs, are becoming increasingly popular among the intelligence crowd as they weather shifting space policies.