Since it unceremoniously dumped its Twitter monitoring product BlueJay for law enforcement in 2016, BrightPlanet has remodeled itself as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Deep Web content and global Newsfeeds for a broader marketplace including commercial enterprises. This updated suite is re-cast as tools designed to help financial institutions and other businesses … [Read more...]
Airborne ISR: What’s Best – SAR, Electro-Optical/Infrared or Fusion?
MDA has a winning model for airborne ISR for military - fusion of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with electro-optical and infrared. A recent Business Week article on Capella Space synthetic aperture radar (SAR) titillated audiences with the promise military grade airborne ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) on any target at a Walmart price - US $5 … [Read more...]
SYSTRAN: Mastering the Tower of OSINT Babel
C5IS reviews SYSTRAN, a market leader in machine translation for Military and Government Intelligence clients worldwide. While 100G monitoring systems can intercept data at unprecedented speeds, merely capturing content is, of course, not equivalent to understanding it. We live in a world of 6,500 languages. Of these, 10 are spoken by half the world’s population. Some 2,000 … [Read more...]
Lumacron – Lighting Up Enemy Forces and Terrorists at Wire Speed
C5IS reviews Lumacron, a provider of FPGA-based solutions for 100% signal capture – led by industry legend Ian Graham. Ask any military intelligence or law enforcement agent what their greatest challenge is, and they might respond, “packet loss on high-speed networks.” By the same token, the switch from 1G to 10G, 40G or 100G networks can be a problem of comparable magnitude … [Read more...]
Dominator: Elbit Systems Airborne and Ground Surveillance
Elbit Systems’ creation of Cyberbit - where it houses the NICE Systems intelligence assets acquired in May 2015 - tends to foster the impression that the parent company’s range of ISS solutions is confined to that group only. It is essential to remember that Elbit Systems, a division of Israel Aerospace Industry (IAI), is first and foremost a military contractor. The … [Read more...]