Defence

Ukraine
Intelligence think tank Borysfen Intel starts new chapter based on founder's legacy

Two years after the death of its founder, who had led both the foreign and military intelligence services, Borysfen Intel is keeping his legacy alive with a new chairman and a fresh line-up.

Ukraine, United States
How Washington armoured Ukraine's border guards

The United States has been helping the Ukrainian border guard to boost its service since 2014. The lasting support and surveillance capacities it brings are proving vital to the unit in a time of war.

United Kingdom, United States
US-focused Control Risks sees predictive AI partner Seerist gain stride

GEOINT, OSINT, interceptions, software packages: the British corporate intelligence provider Control Risks Group's Virginia-based partner Seerist has been growing in strength through the hire of private and ex-government US intelligence experts.

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.

Bangladesh, China, India
Beijing strengthens military footprint on Indian border with Bangladesh's help

Five months of closed-door negotiations have enabled the Chinese Communist Party to take advantage of the Teesta River dredging Memorandum of Understanding to gain a major military upper hand on the Chinese-Indian border near Sikkim.

Spotlight | China, India, United States
Guoanbu securing non-Chinese passports for its agents

The Chinese army's mobilisation on the border with Arunachal Pradesh reaffirms the Chinese Communist Party's interest in the territory. Chinese intelligence services are also obtaining Indian passports for their personnel by facilitating marriages between men from Arunachal Pradesh and Chinese women.

Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine
Lithuania providing Kyiv and Chisinau with security materiel

In addition to helping with Ukraine's rebuild and providing medical supplies, Lithuania's central project management agency has been discreetly delivering some surveillance and military protection equipment to the Moldovan and Ukrainian armed forces.

France, Lebanon, United States
Washington counts on General Joseph Aoun to maintain its local investment in Lebanon

The commander of Lebanon's armed forces Joseph Aoun has an extensive political network in the US, which has stage-managed a bid to move him from the barracks to the presidential palace.

France
Intelligence service providers flock to France's Cyber III tender despite funding doubts

Intelligence specialists want to collaborate to make broader offers to the French Interior Ministry's call for tenders for its major four-year Cyber III investment plan, despite concerns about the budget.

Spotlight | Russia
Moscow strives to make up for lost time in intelligence integration

In the war of attrition being waged in Ukraine, Russia is looking to make good on its technical deficiencies in the crucial business of integrating information from different intelligence sources.

Europe, Ukraine
The network securing the European External Action Service in Kyiv

The European External Action Service has chosen to renew its contract with its existing private security supplier.

France
French coastguards aim to boost surveillance capacity with big data analytics

The French customs service wants to set up a national centre to improve integration and analysis of its ever more diverse intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data.

The Tech Telegraph
French border police go airborne, Air Attack and CARBON 01 in Ouagadougou, Kosiba back after bracket f downfall

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

Paris Border police keen for airborne surveillance

Ouagadougou Air Attack Technologies and CARBON 01's Africa goals align

Washington Ex-Computer Network Operations' Kosiba lands on his feet