CIA

Spotlight | Ukraine
Kyiv seeks ground-based ISR sensors to match Russia's air supremacy

The Ukrainian armed forces still rely heavily on data provided by their US partners. As flying its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft becomes increasingly hazardous, the ministry of defence sent out feelers to acquire ground-based sensors.

The Tech Times
Thales and PwC, FiveCast, Flashpoint, and US drones think-tank

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.

BrusselsThales and PwC, the European Commission's threat intelligence providers.

Arlington/AdelaideAustralia's FiveCast loses US national security market guru.

New YorkEvan Kohlmann, the second Flashpoint co-founder to jump ship.

ArlingtonFaced with China, Mitchell Institute reinvents itself as a designer of drone policy.

United States
Two Six Technologies poised to supply USCYBERCOM platform

US cyberintelligence firm Two Six Technologies is in line to develop US Cyber Command's (USCYBERCOM) Joint Cyber Command and Control (JCC2).

Spotlight | Ukraine
Allied tensions mount over supply of weapons to Ukraine

As fighting in the Donbass intensifies, Kyiv is negotiating with the West to obtain heavier weapons. It is especially keen to obtain airborne weaponry, but while the US, followed by most European countries, has started to respond, Paris is reluctant to follow.

France, United Kingdom, United States
Kroll's Paris office celebrates 25 years amid whirlwind restructure

Now run by head of investigations Louis-David Magnien, after the departure of former boss Bechir Mana, Kroll's French office wants to take advantage of the sudden change in leadership to beef up.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Raedas, Veracity

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 and New York.

London Raedas arrives in Washington.

New York With a new boss, Veracity plugs into Democrat diplomacy.

United States, Uzbekistan
Arnold & Porter help Uzbekistan get closer to Washington

Keen to attract inward investment in its strategic industries, Uzbekistan's government has engaged the services of the law firm's former federal officials.

United Kingdom
Taro Nordheider displays penchant for luxury and corporate intelligence

Hakluyt and Idesus, which is well-connected in Turkey, operate in the rarefied world of wealthy heirs and luxury goods between London and Vienna.

France, Romania, United States
Paris seeks to restore influence in Bucarest, where US has become closer ally

The war in Ukraine has put the spotlight on changing military and security influences in neighbouring countries, whose help is needed. Over the past two decades, French influence has steadily declined in Romania while the US has stepped in and pursued very active security diplomacy in the country.

Kazakhstan, United States
Chevron appoints David Merkel, defender of Kazakhstan's jailed ex-spymaster Massimov

A former State Department official who was close to the Nazarbayev administration, David Merkel has been campaigning for the release of Karim Massimov, who was Chevron's key contact in Kazakhstan.

Germany
US defence industry preps ahead of German contracts rush

Washington's military industrial and diplomatic complex is rallying to make sure it stands a good chance to snap up opportunities created by plans to upgrade the German military.

United States
Beijing, not Moscow, spoils Biden's intelligence nominees

The CIA's future general counsel Kate Heinzelman is in a tight spot over her previous work for Chinese clients at Sidley Austin law firm, the Biden administration's first port of call for future intelligence hires.

The Intelligence Gazette
Mukhabarat in Sinai, Jordan's GID and Ukraine, Wang Yi, France's ANSSI

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 Paris by Tokyo.

EgyptAbbas Kamel oversees new tribal group fighting against Islamic State in Sinai

JordanAhmed Husni deals with fallout from Amman's position on war in Ukraine

FranceANSSI's threat intelligence department gets new chief