BAE Systems Digital Intelligence (formerly Detica, then BAE Systems Applied Intelligence) is an international
business
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and
technology
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consulting
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firm owned by
BAE Systems
BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company based in London, England. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe, and ranked the seventh-largest in the world based on applicable 2021 revenues. ...
. It specializes in "security and resilience", and in collecting, managing and exploiting information to reveal so-called "actionable intelligence", "threat intelligence", "fraud containment" and
customer insight
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. It also sells clients software for large-scale data exploitation, and analytics for intelligence-grade security and financial crime work.
History
The business was founded in 1971 as ''Smith Associates'' carrying out research on defence matters for the
UK Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
. It was incorporated in 1977 and renamed Detica in 2001. It was first listed on the
London Stock Exchange
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in 2002.
In 2003 Detica acquired ''Rubus'', an
Information Technology
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services company. It went on to launch ''Streamshield'', an internet security software product, in 2004. In 2005 Detica acquired ''Extraprise'' UK, a systems integrator. In 2006 it bought the consultancy ''Evolution'', the
computer forensics business ''Inforenz'' and a financial service consultancy ''M.A. Partners''. In 2007 it acquired the US homeland security consultancy ''DFI International''.
In July 2008, prospects of a bidding war for Detica emerged after
BAE Systems
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made an informal offer. On 28 July 2008 the board of Detica and BAE Systems announced that the latter had made a formal cash offer of £9.40 for all issued and to-be-issued share capital. After acquiring over 92% of outstanding shares with shareholder approval, BAE declared its offer for Detica unconditional on 25 September 2008.
In 2010, BAE Systems acquired ''Stratsec'', the largest cyber security consultancy in Australia. In 2011, BAE Systems acquired the Irish
Norkom
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Technologies, a financial crime and financial compliance software maker, and the Danish cyber and intelligence company ''ETI/AS'', which previously helped law enforcement and telecommunication providers in data-crime investigations.
In 2013 it won an 8-year UK government service contract for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and partnered with
Vodafone
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for smartphone and tablet security services.
On 1 February 2014, BAE Systems Detica was renamed ''BAE Systems Applied Intelligence'' to reflect its ambitions for more global growth across its "Applied Intelligence portfolio".
In October 2014, Kevin Taylor was appointed as Managing Director, following Martin Sutherland's departure to
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.
In December 2014 BAE Systems Applied Intelligence acquired Perimeter Internetworking Corp., trading as SilverSky, a commercial cyber services provider.
In May 2017, Julian Cracknell took over from Kevin Taylor as Managing Director.
In June 2017, an investigation by the
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and the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information showed that BAE Systems Applied Intelligence had been selling a mass surveillance technology called Evident to the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Morocco and Algeria.
, the Danish company which developed Evident and was bought by BAE Systems in 2011, told the BBC: "
you'd be able to intercept any internet traffic. If you wanted to do a whole country, you could. You could pin-point people's location based on cellular data. You could follow people around. They were quite far ahead with voice recognition. They were capable of decrypting stuff as well.
" As the countries this equipment was sold to have poor human-rights records, there was criticism of the sales from campaign groups like
and Privacy International. In response to the accusations, BAE Systems claimed: ""BAE systems works for a number of organisations around the world within the regulatory framework of all relevant countries and within our responsible trading principles."
During the Danish Business Authority's processing of the company's application to be allowed to export to
to assess whether there was a risk of the product being used for human rights violations, as required by EU law, to which the full response was, each time, "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finds no reason to object to the attached application".
In February 2022, Applied Intelligence was renamed Digital Intelligence and Dave Armstrong took over from Julian Cracknell as Group Managing Director, following a restructure from BAE Systems Group.
On 12 July 2022 the company announced that its financial services business, which includes its flagship NetReveal® financial crime detection solution, was sold to enterprise AI SaaS company SymphonyAI. The sale completed on 31 October 2022.
; detection and prevention of financial crime; communications intelligence; and 'digital transformation'.
The company operates in the following five main industrial sectors: national security and law enforcement; financial institutions (banking and insurance); telecommunications; civil government (including healthcare); transport, energy and utilities.
, and Southeast Asia.
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