Cyber

France, Saudi Arabia
Saudi conglomerate Nesma reaches out to French industry

Meetings between Saudi and French business leaders have intensified since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Paris in June. The Saudi conglomerate Nesma is hoping the bilateral momentum will lead to new deals with French partners.

United States
US Congress committees face off over military cyber operations' oversight

Confusion over the status of the Pentagon's cyber operations has revived the debate on Congress intelligence committees and in the intelligence services about responsibility for the oversight of covert action.

France, Middle East
With defence in its sights, Jolt Capital cosies up to leading Gulf families

Advised by former French armed forces minister Florence Parly, the investment fund is stepping up its fundraising in the Middle East. With close ties to Paris, Jolt intends to strengthen its defence business.

China, Israel, United States
Freshly indicted Gal Luft put a stable of former spymasters in positions at his Washington-area, Chinese-linked think tanks

Former CIA director James Woolsey had plenty of former senior intelligence and national security officials for company at two organisations operated by Israeli consultant Gal Luft, who is charged with secretly working to advance Beijing's interests.

Russia
ARM-K-M, Russia's clone of Ukrainian GEOINT software Kropyva

To make up for its lack of data fusion software, Moscow is rushing to copy systems captured in the Ukrainian theatre.

Spotlight | China, DRC
Wuhan's drone academy serves as international training platform for Beijing's military drones

The military academy's training teams now constitute a key component of Beijing's drone export contracts, particularly in countries with no existing expertise.

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

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

Abu DhabiBulgaria's Tesseract Intelligence sets sights on UAE via Pegasus

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

LondonNOIA Capital makes adjustments at new firm specialised in VR training platforms

France, Switzerland
Orange Cyberdefense gets closer to UN agencies through SCRT

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has recently renewed information security contracts with three firms including the freshly-acquired Swiss subsidiary of Orange Cyberdefense.

Australia
Israeli Cyberbit to train Australian intelligence agency's cyber specialists

Israeli defence group Elbit's cyber arm has been selected to train experts from the country's cyber intelligence agency, the Australian Signals Directorate.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Audere, Pantheon Intelligence, C4I, and Cassini Conseil

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonAudere networks with chambers of commerce

LincolnDrone pilot Daniel Whorlton moves into consultancy

ParisConsultancy partnered with GEODE laboratory impresses defence ministry

WashingtonMacMurray moves to C4I, sheds other activities

Ukraine, United States
Ex-Uber cybersecurity chief exhibits Ukrainian support in case against DoJ

Former Uber cybersecurity chief Joseph Sullivan, who was convicted last year of concealing a data breach, hopes backing from his supporters in Ukraine will help sway the courts in his favour for his appeal.

United States
US Army tests HADES programme's new airborne intelligence capacities

HADES, the US Army's ISR programme, is entering final testing before deployment. The vital project will enhance intelligence-gathering on Russia's military presence in Ukraine.

Spotlight | China
China plays catch-up on radar imaging at lightning speed

Beijing is making rapid gains in earth observation using radar imaging, driven by a goal to be the global leader in the field, and it's doing so with a tight interweaving of public and private players.

The Tech Telegraph
ISR in Bosnia, Russia's drone jammers, Israeli-Taiwanese-Emirati space alliance

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.

Brussels/Sarajevo ISR suppliers eye Bosnia tender

Moscow/Kyiv Russia beefs up anti-drone apparatus

Tel Aviv Israeli-Taiwanese-Emirati space data processing alliance

Vietnam
Vietnamese coast guard anti-corruption trial jeopardises Western defence deals

Five Vietnamese senior coast guard service officers are currently being tried for corruption, while the Communist Party and defence ministry are taking back control of the service's procurement.

Colombia, UAE
Melissa Moncada hones Tahnoon bin Zayed's strategy in Colombia with G42 and Aurora Rising Group

In our second chapter on Colombian businesswoman Melissa Moncada, Intelligence Online investigates the role of Aurora Rising Group in promoting Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan's interests, including G42, in Colombia.

United States
With Demogorgon, Kratos becomes key player in future US fighter planes' electronic warfare capacity

The San Diego-based tech firm is putting the finishing touches on a prototype of its electronic warfare drone, which is set to be a cornerstone of US Air Force's sixth-generation fighter aircraft programme.