US Air Force

Intelligence world heads into the metaverse 

With a growing number of companies offering virtual-world simulation technology, Western armies and intelligence services are starting to get in on the game, branching out into the "metaverse" to optimise their operations and plan for a future where information will be gathered in this alternate space.

Gemini Advisory spearheads Recorded Future push into ex-USSR zone cyberspace 

The one-year-old Intelligence Fund, launched by Recorded Future, is beefing up its portfolio of intelligence startups, starting with the Russian and Eastern Europe cyberthreat specialist Gemini Advisory.

• NEW YORK - Nardello seeks new London bureau chief
  

• LONDON - Adrian Stones quits Alaco
  

• NEW YORK - JS Held recruits from Kroll

• LONDON - The GPW deal in numbers

• WASHINGTON - Ex-US Air Force investigator sets up on his own
  

• BRUSSELS - Thales and PwC, the European Commission's threat intelligence providers.

• ARLINGTON/ADELAIDE - Australia's FiveCast loses US national security market guru. 

• NEW YORK - Evan Kohlmann, the second Flashpoint co-founder to jump ship.

• ARLINGTON - Faced with China, Mitchell Institute reinvents itself as a designer of drone policy. 

Thales still counts on top Democrat Tom Daschle's Pentagon connections 

The French industry giant, which has won a major contract for the Pentagon's communications systems, has The Daschle Group to rely on when it comes to gathering Democratic support in the US.

Arqit plays key role in big quantum encryption projects under development in US and UK 

London-based Arqit, which is a key partner of the UK's GCHQ and the US Air Force, is setting the pace in government research on quantum encryption and key distribution in the US and the UK.

How a small Lockheed squad helped the F-35 land in Berlin 

Consultants of the US defence giant used an unprecedented geopolitical conjuncture to secure a F-35 fighter jet order from the new German government.

CIA rolls out well-oiled plan on familiar turf in Ukraine 

Engrossed in Europe, US intelligence has increased its operations in Ukraine. It has considerable scope of action in the country forged from eight years of building relations with and providing support to its Ukrainian homologues.

Bracket f, the new cyber gem of NSA senior TAO officials 

Tim Kosiba has just joined the private sector at bracket f, US cybersecurity specialist Redacted's subsidiary for defence contracts, after heading the NSA division Computer Network Operations (CNO, ex-Tailored Access Operations) up to 2019.

Orbital Insight shields US GPS from interference 

In the face of mounting intentional GNSS interference, especially from Russia, US defence is working to make its satellite-based radionavigation system more resilient, a concern shared by numerous other countries.

First In, the fund backed by US cyberdefence veterans 

Headed by a group of former cyberintelligence officials, the cyber-focused venture capital firm is beefing up its capacities to bid for Pentagon contracts.

Dataminr targets European armies 

The US webint specialist is hiring new sales staff to plug its business to Europe's military as it continues to seek for new growth drivers on the continent, amid a flurry of acquisitions and funding rounds.

Technica Corp to update USCYBERCOM's APT hunter system 

As tensions continue to mount with Russia, the US Air Force has contracted Technica Corp to update USCYBERCOM's Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter.

STAG cyber specialists on reconnaissance mission for USCYBERCOM 

The Unites States Cyber Command is hiring the firm run by former US Air Force officers to run open source intelligence operations in order to assess adversary systems.

Pentagon seeks fake news automated detection grail 

For one of the components of its counter-disinformation programme INCAS, US defence research agency Darpa is betting on artificial intelligence to combat foreign influence campaigns, with help from high-tech firms Sift and Protagonist.

Studebaker-Executive Outcomes forge US-South African alliance to rival Russia's Wagner 

South African financier Heine van Niekerk and African private military veteran Eeben Barlow are constructing a response to Russian hybrid warfare operators in Africa in partnership with the US firm Studebaker, which employs former Pentagon and CIA officers.

SAS sent to Yemen to keep Iranian maritime activity in check 

British troops have returned to Yemen after 50 years' absence, the deployment of the SAS contributing to a common front against Iranian maritime ambitions alongside the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.