SIGINT

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Truce in Yemen, Russian executives, Transnistria, Rosfinmonitoring

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we home in on Saana, Moscow and Tiraspol.

YemenAnsarullah still vindictive despite truce

RussiaTemporary lease of life for top security officers

MoldaviaTransnistria, on the lookout, barricades itself

RussiaFinancial intel service keeps its staff happy

Israel, Singapore
NSO keeps a foot in Singapore thanks to TRD

In a bad position in Singapore on cyber intelligence, NSO Group maintains a presence in the city-state thanks to local anti-drone technology integrator TRD Consultancy, which distributes the products of its subsidiary Convexum.

Ukraine
Kyiv engaged in intelligence legislation frenzy

The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has been busy lately producing amendments and bills aimed at facilitating the army's operations. It is now poring over military counter-espionage.

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.

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Criticism in the Sinai, drones in French skies, Astana nears Baku

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

FranceCommando unit drones in French skies.

Kazakhstan/Azerbaijan/TurkeyKazakh military intelligence moves closer to Azeri counterpart.

EgyptTimid criticism of Sisi's Sinai strategy emerges in Cairo.

France
French parliamentary elections set to shake up intelligence oversight

The expected rise of the far left and far right in next month's French legislative elections looks set to trigger tensions over control of the country's intelligence apparatus.

United Kingdom
Thales Alenia Space and In-Space become last contendors for UK defence's spy satellites constellation project

France's Thales Alenia Space (TAS) and the UK's In-Space, a subsidiary of BAE System, are the last contenders for the Jove project, which aims to create a constellation of three observation cubesats and three radio frequency interceptor cubsats for the UK defence.

United States
NATO moves ahead with intelligence fusion platform

While the war in Ukraine continues to monopolise its attention, NATO is pressing on with the creation of an Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) platform that will bring together open source, spatial imagery and other categories of intelligence data.

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia
FSB keeps close watch on Caucasian borders

The FSB's border patrol is hard at work in the highly volatile Caucasus region, along Russian borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The number of control sites is growing and growing.

Spotlight | Iraq, United States
Washington takes stock of Baghdad's intelligence gaps

As it approaches the end of the second year of its partial military withdrawal from the country, the United States is assessing its Iraqi partner's intelligence capabilities. An observation of persistent shortcomings argues in favour of keeping its advisory missions in place.

United States
HawkEye lobbies to unblock export of raw data

US legislation currently prevents geospatial analytics firm HawkEye 360 from providing raw ship geolocation data, which is increasingly sought after by intelligence clients. The company is lobbying to unblock the situation.

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Abdullah II in Washington, GCHQ, US shipments to Kyiv, Uzbek border guards, Poupard and DGA

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Amman to London via Washington, Paris, Tashkent and Kyiv.

Jordan/United States Abdullah II puts intelligence at centre of US visit agenda

United KingdomGCHQ's mystery Manchester accelerator

Ukraine/United StatesWashington determined to fill Ukraine's military gaps

UzbekistanBorder guards on alert

FranceCybersecurity chief eyes defence procurement role

France
The sensitive question of intelligence gathering by French defence attachés

Defence attachés, who are sent by the French armed forces ministry to France's embassies, are rarely instructed to carry out intelligence missions, particularly in allied countries offering strong cooperation or export potential. This does not, however, prevent these military diplomats from making use of their intelligence backgrounds or opting to carry out some intelligence work all the same.

Europe, Moldova, United States
West increases aid to boost Chisinau's cyber defence capacities

Since the unrest in Transnistria at the end of April, the media and international community have kept an eye on Moldova. Intelligence agencies in the country are worried about their cyber capacities, despite a boost from Chisinau's Israeli and Western allies, which has increased in recent weeks.

Spotlight | Belarus, Russia
How Russia is working to absorb Belarusian news networks into sovereign internet

While everyone's focus is on Ukraine, the information space in Belarus continues to quietly but steadily move towards a shared sovereign internet with Russia, one that is controlled by the latter's security and cut off from the rest of the world.

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Afghan planes in Tashkent, Russian military engineers decorated, DNI

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, we serve up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we go from Paris to Tashkent, Washington, Brussels and Kabul.

Uzbekistan/AfghanistanTashkent refuses to return Afghan planes to Kabul.

RussiaMoscow decorates military engineers.

FranceMarc Burg lures more top spies to his degree course.

ParisSenators call for a law on facial recognition.

United StatesDNI tasked again to tackle China's support to Russia.

EuropeEuropol, future watchdog of foreign investment in the EU.

India, Turkey, UAE
India's fallen signal intelligence king hawks Turkish drones to Dubai

From Dubai, where he now runs his firm specialising in intelligence equipment, Stratign, Anant Bindal is selling military drones. Branded as being his company, they are in fact designed by Turkish manufacturers.