SOS International

Europe, United States
Pentagon fine-tunes intelligence structure in Europe

Anchored at their garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, the US armed forces rely on discreet intelligence recruits scouted out by an array of Department of State providers.

The Tech Telegraph
Dataflow Security in Tel Aviv, Stevens to Babel Street, Germond leaves Asperiq

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.

Tel Aviv Italian zero-day researcher Dataflow Security into Israel

Washington Ex-CIA officer Stevens joins consultancy Babel Street

Abu Dhabi Germond leaves encryption specialist Asperiq

Iraq, United States
Texas' Spartan Air training Iraqi pilots

The Texan firm Spartan Air Academy Iraq landed a $31 million contract in August to pursue its training of Iraqi [...]

Europe
EIB creates private security pool

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is looking to broaden its [...]

United States
US Army keen to end reliance on NGA for GEOINT analysis

The National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) launched a tender last month for its own imagery analysis that will free it [...]

Qatar
SOS International

SOS International (SOSI), the army services company owned by the [...]

United States
SOSI, no ordinary family firm

The American-Armenian Setian family has carved a niche for itself providing translators, cultural advisors and logistics staff to the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.

United Kingdom
Govt cuts hit BBC Monitoring

BBC Monitoring, which tracks the world's media for the British intelligence services, the CIA and risk analysis companies, is facing major budget cuts.

Afghanistan
Private counter-insurrection

NATO depends on an array of private companies to take [...]

Iraq, United States
Battling for the last contracts

A month away from the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops [...]

United States | Washington
William Parker

After a long career at the State Department, William Parker [...]

United States | Washington
Clapper Awards Contract to Former Employer

The undersecretary of defense for intelligence, James Clapper, awarded a [...]

France | Paris
International SOS Installs Servers in France

The success of its Traveller Locator Service (TLS) in the United States has prompted International SOS to develop the same [...]

Spotlight | United States | Intelligence
Cut-Throat Competition on Translation Market

To make up for a shortage of linguists, the American military intelligence agencies are devoting huge sums to recruiting translators and interpreters in the private sector, and those contracts represent not only a financial bonanza for the Pentagon's sub-contractors but [.

United States | Washington
SOS the Army's Private Analyst

A former translation company, SOS International has managed in less than a year to become one of the key subcontractors to the U.S. army in analyzing information.

United States | Washington
SOS International Lands Stratcom Deal

The American firm SOS International has beaten Anteon, Raytheon and [...]