Europe
Airbus and Thales rally networks of influence to reap benefits of European rearmament

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Ex-MI5 boss opens firm, CIA vet at Forward, GardaWorld, John Reid Advisory

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonFormer MI5 boss opens own firm at last

WashingtonEx-CIA officer joins Forward Risk and Intelligence

Tripoli/LondonGardaWorld keeps FCDO contract despite mishaps in Libya

LondonEx-interior minister under Blair offers his expertise to Aeralis

Europe, Ukraine, United States
Ukrainian company at vanguard of NATO's information wars

Founded during the war and backed by Ukrainian intelligence, Osavul, a start-up specialising in the fight against disinformation, is racking up contracts.

France, Poland
Poland's Air Force Institute of Technology turns into defence partnerships hub

Poland is pursuing the modernisation of its airborne surveillance capacities with French and other European defence companies through its Air Force Institute of Technology.

Europe
Intertech adds yet another EU security contract to its belt

In planning the deployment of new external missions and equipment of existing delegations, the EU has turned to one of its trusted suppliers, French-Lebanese surveillance technology provider Intertech.

Europe, Germany
Brussels brings in consultants to help it learn first lessons from war on Ukraine

The European Defence agency plans to use analysis from a panel of German and French advisory and corporate intelligence companies as the basis for its 2023 defence and capacity development programme.

Spotlight | Europe
Defence companies position themselves for new European cyber situational awareness platform

A European Cyber Situational Awareness Platform, to be built under a programme launched by the European Commission last month, will add another layer to the EU's hybrid warfare apparatus, which some big defence companies are already engaged in.

Spotlight | France
French Treasury seeks new compliance investigators for Airbus

Two years after Airbus' settlement with France's PNF and Britain's SFO, the company's exports are to be more closely scrutinized by the French finance ministry.

Europe, France, Libya
Battle rages for security contracts in Libya

European Border Assistance Mission, ENI, EU External Action Service... one after another, major armed security contracts are becoming the subject of intense battles between specialist service providers, while the situation on the ground remains critical.

Germany, United States
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.

Spotlight | France
Russia-Ukraine war prompts France to patch over deep intelligence gaps

The Ukraine conflict has forced France, like Germany, to rethink its 2023 defence budget in order to funnel more funds into special operations and intelligence equipment. Each agency and branch of the army is compiling its list of urgent requests.

France, Turkey
Thales quietly teams with Turkish Defense industry on new spy ship

The MIT's first intelligence corvette, which launched last month, was built by Turkish defence companies and Yaltes, the local subsidiary of Thales. The vessel signals Turkish intelligence's growing activity in the Mediterranean, where it is competing against France.