Robert Gates

Spotlight | China, UAE, United States
Washington unmoved by calls to reduce space-tech sharing with Abu Dhabi despite growing China ties

A string of collaborations have been announced between Emirati space bodies and China's National Space Administration in recent years, opening what some experts say is a backdoor to unpoliced technology transfer. But US officials are said to be comfortable with the ties.

The Intelligence Gazette
Robert Gates on the Hill, Bagheera berets back to their roots, US space attaché in Abu Dhabi, London-Washington defence innovation tie-up

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

USFormer CIA boss Gates one step closer to Congress award

FranceBagheera red berets return to their origins

UAEUS's first space attaché lands in Abu Dhabi

US/UKWashington, London strengthen ties in defence innovation

United States
Anja Manuel helps Thiel's freight logistics company Flexport in Asia

Flexport, the Californian company that markets data processing and brokerage [...]

United States
MAG Aerospace, US special forces' ISR favourite

MAG Aerospace has emerged as the US intelligence community's go-to ISR subcontractor in crisis zones.

Qatar
How Washington allowed the anti-Qatar offensive to come into being

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates waited for Donald Trump to drop his support for Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the end of May before launching their diplomatic offensive against Qatar. This is our exclusive report on the meeting which led to the break-up.

Spotlight | Ukraine
Kiev lobbyists try to get on Trump's radar

Caught between the bellicose Kremlin and a pro-Russian White House, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is putting pressure on his lobbyists to stay visible in Trump's international agenda.

Ukraine, United States
Motor Sich, US defence industry's gateway to Kiev

With the help of a discreet Washington insider, the Ukrainian engine maker is being assiduously courted by US defence groups.

Ukraine, United States
Douglas goes to bat for Motor Sich

Richard Douglas, the former deputy assistant secretary for defense for counter-narcotics under Ronald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates, is now doing [...]

United States
Anne Neuberger

Anne Neuberger was appointed chief risk officer of the National [...]

United States
CRRC catalogues battlefield documents

The US intelligence community is to help finance a research centre for the study of documents recovered during conflicts.

United States
NRO's wings clipped

Judged to be too costly, the National Reconnaissance Office, which controls U.S. spy satellites, has lost its financial and operational autonomy.

United States
Jeremy Bash

Jeremy Bash, Leon Panetta's director of cabinet from 2009 to [...]

United States
Boeing bitter about ITAR

India’s selection of Dassault’s Rafale and EADS’s Eurofighter on April [...]

United States
Leon Panetta

Leon Panetta, the head of the CIA, is being ever [...]

United States
Robert Gates

Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, will not have time [...]