BAE Systems

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Bilal Sen, Audere, EuroSatory

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Cologne, London and Copenhagen.

Cologne Turkish ex-cyber police official moves into German corporate intelligence

London Audere recruits new managing director

Copenhagen C. Corner and AC Defence eye French market

Germany
Bundestag becomes next focus for Europe's arms lobbyists

After Berlin's decision to re-invest massively in its armed forces, EU defence operators are now following in the footsteps of their US and Israeli counterparts, and are trying to reap a share of a potential €100bn windfall.

Denmark, France
Expanding northern European lobbying group Rud Pedersen tries its hand in the French market

Taking advantage of its rapid expansion in Europe, the Danish firm, which promoted the Rafale in Finland and the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is looking for new contracts. In France, it is looking to develop its lobbying business.

United Kingdom
Thales Alenia Space and In-Space become last contendors for UK defence's spy satellites constellation project

France's Thales Alenia Space (TAS) and the UK's In-Space, a subsidiary of BAE System, are the last contenders for the Jove project, which aims to create a constellation of three observation cubesats and three radio frequency interceptor cubsats for the UK defence.

Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Britain's MASS Consultants builds Saudi Arabia's electronic warfare capacities

The British electronic warfare IT firm MASS Consultants, a longstanding contractor to Britain's Ministry of Defence, has started a new phase of a major programme to upgrade Saudi Arabia's air warfare.

Poland, Ukraine, United States
Warsaw and Pinchuk join forces in Washington

The Polish government has hitched its wagon to a pro-Eastern European Washington think-tank connected with Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk.

Kazakhstan
Fall of Nazarbayev's sons-in-law prompts restructuring of Kazakhstan's oil sector

The protests in Kazakhstan have had an impact on the energy sector, which has seen heads roll among those close to ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Russia's SVR is keeping a close watch on proceedings.

Saudi Arabia, South Korea
Seoul uses influential agents to break into defence

If China, much to Washington's dismay, is pushing hard to make its mark on Saudi Arabia's sovereign markets, the real winners of Riyadh's new interest in Asia remain, for now, South Korean.

Spotlight | Europe, Israel, United States
How OSINT has worked its way among cyber-intelligence experts

Open-source intelligence (OSINT), considered less touchy than cyber-attacking, is less regulated and easier for goverments to showcase. However, the one-upmanship in the sector is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between passive and active intelligence.

Iraq, United States
Iraqi intelligence anxious as US pursues its military operations in Baghdad

Although the International Coalition has announced that it is ending its combat missions in Iraq, American troops are continuing to fly over demonstrations in Baghdad, aggravating the already palpable febrility of the pro-Iranian militias. This is causing anxiety in the Iraqi security services, who are having to take additional measures to contain potential threats.

United Kingdom
BAE Systems helps UK attribute foreign information warfare

Faced with the difficulty of attributing influence operations, the United Kingdom plans to return to the information warfare front as part of its post-Brexit action programme. It is counting on BAE Systems consulting subsidiary Corda to assist the Ministry of Defence in this area.

Europe, United States
Lockheed Martin's lobbying brings F-35s to land in Helsinki

Finland's decision to acquire F-35 fighter jets was helped by the development of closer security relations between Helsinki and the US. It was also a success for Lockheed Martin's lobbying effort - and a failure for that of its rivals.

Spotlight | Saudi Arabia
The ups and downs of Saudi spyplane operator GDC Middle East

All the Gulf nations are gradually entering the race for ISR aircraft. Saudi Arabia, which relies on an operator taken over by Mohammed bin Salman, is lagging behind its Emirati and Qatari competitors.