intelligence

Verint Systems Inc.

vagabondvan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:29:15 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Verint is a company that provides domestic intelligence surveillance technology worldwide. The U.S. government is one of its customers. Veteran investigative journalist James Bamford, talking in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! on October 14, 2008, named Verint one of the companies the NSA uses in its surveillance program at AT&T and Verizon.

L-3 Communications

Charlie Cray — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:03:46 -0500

Company Snapshot:

L-3 has grown from a motley collection of businesses spun off from Lockheed Martin in 1997 to a $14 billion company that is one of the largest military contractors. It provides a wide range of high-tech electronics and communications services not only to the Pentagon but also to U.S. intelligence agencies. Not all its services are high-tech: the company’s MPRI subsidiary, acquired in 2000, is among the providers of controversial private security services in places such as Iraq. With its 2005 acquisition of Titan Corp., L-3 got into the business of providing translators to assist U.S.

Science Applications International Corp.

Charlie Cray — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:55:00 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Founded in 1969, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is a major intelligence, military, aerospace, engineering and systems contractor. It is involved in defense/military (DoD), intelligence community, and homeland security contracting, as well as selected commercial markets.