US interceptor satellite specialist HawkEye strengthens foothold in UAE

Razor's Edge gains firmer foothold in US intelligence 

The investment fund is continuing its shopping spree among companies seeking to break into the US intelligence sector. Its former protégé, BlackHorse Solutions, has just won a major contract on the DARPA programme to improve penetration testing.

• NURSULTAN - Butterfly Effect launches intercepted data analytics platform
  

• BOSTON - Holland joins Shield Capital

• TEL AVIV - Following co-founder Yigal Naveh's death, Kela receives funding from Japanese HiJoJo

• WASHINGTON - Former NSA executive Ryan's Trinity Cyber recruits a lobbyist
  

HawkEye lobbies to unblock export of raw data 

US legislation currently prevents geospatial analytics firm HawkEye 360 from providing raw ship geolocation data, which is increasingly sought after by intelligence clients. The company is lobbying to unblock the situation.

First In, the fund backed by US cyberdefence veterans 

Headed by a group of former cyberintelligence officials, the cyber-focused venture capital firm is beefing up its capacities to bid for Pentagon contracts.

Manar Military Consultancy opens up Emirati market for French naval defence industry 

The advisory firm founded by former French special forces operator Freddy Riaud is trying to win a contract with the UAE's Tawazun to conduct a preliminary study for the future construction of an ammunition recycling plant.

Prométhée offers custom-made geospatial intelligence platforms to Gulf and African clients 

Drawing on chairman Olivier Piepsz's extensive business network, the French geospatial intelligence start-up Prométhée has locked in a string of partnerships with players in the French space sector and is now attracting prospective clients in the Gulf and Africa.

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.

Planet's SPAC deal reveals the scale of the challenges it faces 

By using a SPAC to obtain a stock exchange listing, US New Space GEOINT pioneer Planet, had to release information which shows the scale of the financial and industrial challenges which still lie ahead of it.

NGA eyes new pool of GEOINT vendors as it ramps up commercial acquisitions 

The agency wants to support US geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) start-ups but is also increasingly considering European firms.