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SAUDI ARABIA EUROPE 02/07/2014 Airbus enters drone race Airbus, the former EADS, is determined not to miss out on Saudi Arabian drone tenders. The European aeronautical group is [...]
FRANCE 02/07/2014 Geos' new management duo The French private security company has boosted its management capacity by the twin hiring of an ex-military chief executive and a COO with a business background. [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 02/07/2014 New player in South African market British operators have dominated the corporate intelligence market in South Africa for a long time but a new local challenger is poised to give them a run for their money. [...]
Spotlight UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 18/06/2014 Erik Prince's private squadron in Abu Dhabi Since selling his private security company Blackwater in 2011, former Navy Seal Erik Prince has been developing a new business venture, this time in the aeronautics field. Behind a series of FVCs the world's best-known private security businessman has built [. [...]
UNITED STATES 18/06/2014 William Evanina William Evanina is to succeed Frank Montoya Jr as National [...]
EUROPEAFRICA 18/06/2014 Peacekeeping's private battalions The UN, EU and AU deployments in Mali and Central African Republic are making increasing use of private contractors. [...]
FRANCE CHINA JAPAN 18/06/2014 Paris' business ambassadors go east Maurice Gourdault Montagne and Thierry Dana, France's new ambassadors in China and Japan, have extensive business experience. [...]
UNITED STATES UNITED KINGDOM 18/06/2014 New Century follows Aegis' lead A British company whose only client is the US Department of Defense, New Century, which trains and supervises intelligence services, has had to open an office in the United States. [...]
FRANCE 18/06/2014 Stephane Gerardin Stephane Gerardin, the former DGSE official who founded the private [...]
UNITED STATES 18/06/2014 Jason Deyonker Jason Deyonker, the financier who acquired Blackwater, since renamed Academi [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 18/06/2014 Al Raha maintains Sultans' network Although Kaled bin Sultan was sidelined from power in April 2013, his company Al Raha Group is still getting contracts from the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). [...]
Spotlight FRANCE SAUDI ARABIA 04/06/2014 Hollande banking on Saudi Arabia Keen to capitalise on the diplomatic rapprochement between Paris and Riyadh in the past year, (IOL 695, IOL 703), the French government is hoping that Saudi Arabia investment money might come to the rescue of a number of financially-struggling French [. [...]
UNITED STATES 04/06/2014 Big Safari, surveillance squad In a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, a small technical unit coordinates the US Army's top secret airborne monitoring procurement programmes. [...]
SYRIA 04/06/2014 Hezbollah hit hard Free The Lebanese Shi'ite party has recently lost two key members of its military arm in the fighting in Syria. Mahmoud [...]
FRANCE 04/06/2014 France hampered by micro-electronics weakness The French defence industry’s dependence on foreign micro-electronics is threatening several of its export contracts. [...]
UNITED STATES 04/06/2014 CIA veteran Devine looks back "Good Hunting", Jack Devine's memoirs, lifts the lid on his long career in the CIA's clandestine service and his subsequent move to the private sector. [...]
HONGKONG 04/06/2014 Frontier Services Group Frontier Services Group, the emergency security and logistics business that [...]
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 04/06/2014 Restrata Restrata,Olive Group's industrial security branch, has recruited Mark Alexander, a [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 04/06/2014 Drum Cussac Drum Cussac, the maritime security firm founded by former Scots [...]