SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a U.S. government TROJAN follow-on contract to support U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) for up to a five-year period. Using SES’s global network of satellite services, SES GS will continue to support the Army’s premier intelligence network in delivering operational […]
Intelligence
Peraton Names A New Company Vice President Of National Security Strategy + Integration
Peraton has appointed Andrew Hallman, former Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Principal Executive and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, as vice president, National Security Strategy and Integration, effective May 9, 2022. In this new role, Hallman will lead the company’s efforts to build, test, and execute transformative […]
Maxar Makes Strategic Investment In blackshark.ai To Extend Geospatial Capabilities
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has engaged in a strategic investment in Blackshark.ai, a provider of AI-powered, geospatial analytics services — this partnership represents Maxar’s commitment to innovation within the firm’s 3D Earth Intelligence product portfolio. The Blackshark.ai platform processes petabytes of satellite imagery in hours and detects and segments objects, roads, vegetation, and other infrastructure […]
BlackSky Appoints Top Defense + Intelligence Experts To New Advisory Group
Prominent leaders from the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Space Force to provide strategic guidance to BlackSky BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has formed a Strategic Advisory Group and has appointed three prominent U.S. leaders with diverse backgrounds from the national security, defense and intelligence communities. This new advisory […]
Sending Their 112th Satellite To Orbit For BlackSky Is Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY), bringing the total number of satellites deployed by Rocket Lab to 112. The ‘Without Mission A Beat’ launch, arranged for BlackSky through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., was Electron’s 25th lift-off from Rocket […]
New Digital Intelligence Business Formed By BAE Systems
BAE Systems recently formed a new Digital Intelligence business, bringing together many world-class digital, data and cyber capabilities from across the Company to deliver a greater digital advantage to its customers and partners. The creation of the new business, comprising almost 5,000 people in 16 countries around the world, reflects a growing requirement from customers […]
Maxar Technologies Makes A Strategic Investment In Aurora Insight
Aurora Insight, a business analytics company that provides radio frequency (RF) data and advanced analytics about wireless activity, now has a strategic investment from Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a leading provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. Aurora Insight directly measures the global RF environment with terrestrial and satellite-based sensors to provide […]
New Project To Place Denmark On The Military Space Technology Map
Space technology and satellites are not only important for monitoring climate change, for navigating ships and airplanes, and for communicating over long distances — they are also essential to the security of Denmark and the EU. A new project develops a technology that makes it possible to monitor and identify military threats in space and […]
Aerospacelab Raises 40 Million Euros in Series B Financing Round
Belgian satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab has accelerated its next stage of growth with a successful raise of 40 million euros. The Series B round is co-led by Airbus Ventures and XAnge, a leading European investor in early-stage startups. Additional investors in the round include Octave & Miroslaw Klaba, SRIW, Noshaq, BNP Paribas Private Equity, Sambrinvest, and […]
Partnership Between Spire Global + Dragonfly Aerospace Will Support The Australian Office of National Intelligence
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) is now engaged in a partnership with Dragonfly Aerospace to support the Australian Government’s Office of National Intelligence (ONI) with a second satellite as a part of its ongoing National Intelligence Community Satellite (NICSAT) program. The follow-up program, NICSAT2, will witness Spire designing, building, and launching the company’s Low Earth […]