GCHQ

United Kingdom, United States
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.

China
Ex-President Jiang Zemin's clan targeted by fresh anti-corruption campaign

China's spymaster Zhao Leji has launched another anti-corruption crackdown to destroy the last remaining vestiges of former president Jiang Zemin's influence.

United States
NGA's intelligence cloud contract signals ultimate demise of JEDI project

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) award of a cloud contract to General Dynamics Information Technology marks the end of ambitions to create a unified cloud for the entire US defence community. Interoperability is the new watchword.

The Intelligence Gazette
Israeli anti-missile system, Turkish-Kazakh cooperation, Macron decorates special forces

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

Israel/GulfRiyadh, Abu Dhabi and Manama eye Tel Aviv's anti-missile shield

Turkey/KazakhstanKazakh and Turkish military intelligence services strengthen rapprochement

FrancePresident Emmanuel Macron and Special Forces' love-in continues

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Sanctions race generates new market for investigation and assistance work for oligarchs

Londongrad has gone into a frenzy since the start of the Western riposte to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The entire ecosystem which has grown up around the oligarchs is working to help them escape sanctions and limit the reputational and financial damage they are expected to cause.

United Kingdom
Westminster wants own counterintelligence

The Security Intelligence & Risk Analysis Service (SIRAS) is being set up a month after MI5 warned about supected Chinese agent Christine Lee. This move also comes as foreign interference in British politics has become one of parliament's major concerns.

United Kingdom
X Cyber teams with ex-GCHQ Darktrace founders

Rising British open source intelligence solutions firm X Cyber has recently taken on two heavyweight advisers in Darktrace's Steve Huxter and Andrew France, the former deputy director of GCHQ.

France, United Kingdom, United States
Erys, Hakluyt, Veracity, Amarante, KPMG

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 Paris, London and New York.

United Kingdom
UK made to tighten interception overwatch by European justice despite Brexit

As a result of the European Court of Human Rights' Big Brother Watch ruling, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office has, for the first time, looked into some of the GCHQ's bulk data collection, storage and processing protocols.

United Kingdom
Airbus to install new ciphering system for British Foreign Office

The Franco-German company has won a contract for a new ciphering system for Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) as London looks to deal with a growing espionage threat.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Intelligence and Security Committee still fighting for oversight of Investment Security Unit

The British parliamentary intelligence committee is still pushing for greater scrutiny of the new foreign investment unit against an unbending British government. It is also asking to overhaul its own powers.

United Kingdom
Frazer-Nash Consultancy, US accelerator of British cyberdefence ambitions

Now US-owned, Britain's Frazer-Nash Consultancy is working on the development of autonomous cyberdefence systems for the British armed forces.

Spotlight | France
French Senate finds DGSE's 2022 budget a tricky fit

After several prodigal years, the DGSE is expected to see a slight decrease in its budget and investments next year. Meanwhile, according to the Senate, the modest increase in personnel spending could prove insufficient.

United Kingdom
UK to streamline influence operations to help with its new ambitions in Indo-Pacific

Rand Corp has been tasked with helping the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) identify and develop effective influence campaigns aimed at overseas audiences, in line with London's drive to boost its information warfare capacities, at a time where the UK is increasingly focused on the Indo-Pacific region.

United Kingdom
London lays groundwork for British cyber among Gulf allies

CyLon, a British cyber incubator close to the UK government and advised by Israel's former domestic intelligence chief Yuval Diskin, has been developing semi-public accelerators in the Gulf with funding from the Foreign Office, itself keen to export British cyber tools to the region.

United Kingdom
The fall of Afghanistan: intelligence services were blinded by the Chilcot Inquiry

The British intelligence services were abandoned by their then boss, foreign secretary Dominic Raab, after their incorrect assessment of the Afghan situation, yet the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, continues to defend them. The latter regards that problem as being the result of the severe damage caused by the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraqi intervention, which crippled London's spymasters.

United Kingdom
Ex-GCHQ technology chief Kempson assists Horizon Technologies' rise in interceptions

Still hoping to get its interception (SIGINT) constellation into orbit in time for future major British space contracts, Britain's Horizon Technologies recently appointed former GCHQ chief Neil Kempson to advise it.

United Kingdom
Oxford overtakes Cambridge at Hakluyt

The corporate intelligence firm Hakluyt is fast turning into an "Oxford Analytica" thanks to its recent hires.