United States
Trump's budget cuts hit geospatial intelligence and analytics contracts

United Kingdom, United States
Amid changing priorities, US government turns to UK for AI safety guidance

The UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI) has quietly established itself as a global leader in AI security and ethics, insiders say. The US equivalent, impoverished by government strictures against red tape, is said to be taking notes.

Europe
Details emerge on German, East European geospatial intelligence plans

Plans in the pipeline in Germany and several Eastern European countries will redraw the map of power regarding space-based intelligence capabilities. Long a dominant force, Paris may soon be left behind.

United States
GEOINT leaders turn to exports amid stock market turmoil

Military New Space in the Trump era - part 2: BlackSky, Planet, Satellogic, the surge in GEOINT share prices following Donald Trump's election has come to an abrupt halt. Now more than ever, leading players are relying on export customers (Israel, Japan, Brazil) to recoup their losses.

Japan, United States
Maxar's highly strategic Asian clients revealed

Maxar, the world's leading supplier of imagery to US intelligence services, has signed new contracts with two countries that Intelligence Online has identified. Their business is key to strengthening US intelligence alliances against China.

United States
US geospatial intelligence agency shakes up service providers for economic surveillance

The recent award of the LUNO A contracts by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, expected for months, has highlighted the role of a number of discreet players. At the same time, the agency is getting rid of three long-standing service providers.

The Tech Telegraph
Stuart Peach at Maxar, Frontex aerial surveillance contracts, Wide Int' in hot spot, Kim Darroch at Fivecast

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

LondonEx-military intelligence officer Stuart Peach boosts Maxar's UK office

WarsawFrontex awards new round of surveillance contracts

ParisWide Int' ready for a buyer

LondonEx-NSA officer Kim Darroch helps Australian OSINT provider FiveCast

United States
With LUNO A, NGA switches track to generative AI for GEOINT

Hoping to make up for lost time, the US agency is shifting its approach to using AI for geospatial intelligence analysis. Its latest call for tenders in that field, LUNO A, has sparked interest from newcomers and sector giants alike.

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.