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Royal Navy vet Bennett at Capita, Governances, Gateley Omega, Xirius helps EU

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 London, Paris and Brussels.

London Royal Navy vet Bennett's success as defence sector consultant

Paris Governances cuts ties with Lagardère auditor

London Gateley Omega, the investigative arm of Ukrainian recovery fund lawyers

Brussels Maingain helps defend European sanctions

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Strategic electronic warfare firm Ultra Electronics reorganises under new shareholder Advent

US investor Advent is substantially remodelling its new subsidiary, the British military and intelligence supplier Ultra Electronics, in response to UK government sovereignty concerns in the wake of the firm's sale last August.

Germany, Switzerland
Sport big data giant Sportradar, private investigator for Germany's antidoping watchdog

The company, which specialises in collecting and analysing sport data, has been growing its investigations and compliance practice. With the help of former British intelligence officers, it monitors doping, match fixing and online betting fraud.

Taiwan
Taiwan's military procurement ambitions keep 'business diplomats' busy

With the threat of a Chinese military invasion in the air, Taiwan is building up its military defences, prompting local and international companies to mobilise their defence consultants.

France, Qatar
Cyber policing experts jostle for Qatar World Cup security contract

Still in its first year of existence, the cyber branch of France's gendarmerie has already caught the eye of the Doha officials as they finalise their last security partnerships ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Japan, United Kingdom
Nihon Cyber Defence grows into Japan-based relay of Five Eyes cyber model

The consulting firm Nihon Cyber Defence, which is looking to extend its strategic activities beyond the UK and Japan, has hired the US embassy in Canberra's former intelligence liaison officer, John Powers.

United Kingdom
UK to streamline influence operations to help with its new ambitions in Indo-Pacific

Rand Corp has been tasked with helping the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) identify and develop effective influence campaigns aimed at overseas audiences, in line with London's drive to boost its information warfare capacities, at a time where the UK is increasingly focused on the Indo-Pacific region.

United Kingdom
KPMG to help MoD's Digital Foundry develop ad hoc cyber-intelligence sensors

The British defence ministry has hired KPMG to help it launch a defence artificial intelligence centre within its Digital Foundry, a new laboratory aimed at leveraging British digital defence data to fill in gaps in defence intelligence gathering capacities.

United Kingdom
Geollect develops intelligence fusion platform for UK special forces

Britain's commandos are counting on Geollect, a startup favoured by the defence ministry, to help them improve on intelligence processing by drawing on techniques used in the private sector.

United Kingdom
Ex-GCHQ technology chief Kempson assists Horizon Technologies' rise in interceptions

Still hoping to get its interception (SIGINT) constellation into orbit in time for future major British space contracts, Britain's Horizon Technologies recently appointed former GCHQ chief Neil Kempson to advise it.

United Kingdom
Accenture develops information warfare platform for UK defence ministry

After notching up a series of cyber contracts and acquisitions in recent years, consulting giant Accenture has been awarded a contract to supply the 6th (United Kingdom) Division at a time when Britain is looking to beef up its influence and counter-influence capacities.

United Kingdom, United States
Geollect continues roll with British intelligence and military

The UK's ministry of defence has shown its support in Geollect, a start-up incubated by the GCHQ, with an increasing number of contracts. The latest is a highly-strategic mission to provide a pysops platform for the Royal Navy, recently caught in information warfare in the Black Sea.

Spotlight | France, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Nabil el Daher's Middle East contracts come back to haunt Airbus

A Paris court will begin a hearing at 2pm on 30 June into a case that has been hanging over Airbus for years. The former agent of the group's border protection arm Signalis is ready for a new round, even if that means revealing contracts made in Saudia Arabia and the rest of the region.

United Kingdom
Riskology gathers lords and ex-security officers in new alliance

The former commercial secretary to the Treasury Lucy Neville-Rolfe has joined the board of Riskology Global, a brand new risk management firm.

United Kingdom, United States
Houghton joins innovator Rebellion Defense

Former chief-of-defence staff turned consultant Nicholas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Richmond, has joined the board of the Big data specialist [...]

United Kingdom
K&R specialists all over Brillante Virtuoso case

An array of experts were brought on board for the case that opened on October 7 between Suez Fortune Investment, [...]