Communication Intelligence (COMINT) Market to Observe Significant Growth Due to Product Launches and Company Collaborations by Market Players, such as TCI International, Anritsu, and Others

The growing threat to national and international security owing to illegitimate cross-border activities has made security a top priority for numerous nations worldwide. Usually, a country’s security departments depend on communication surveillance and intelligence technologies to safeguard the people and organizations within the country. In the recent years, an exponential rise in the demand for technologies that provide essential information regarding illegal activities to law enforcement and defense departments has been observed. The information gathered using intelligence technologies has become imperative for the success of military operations. Communication Intelligence (COMINT) is one of the intelligence technologies greatly used in activities intended for national as well as international security. As a result, the demand as well as the implementation of advanced security technologies mainly in the defense and aerospace sectors is expected to upsurge the growth of the global communication intelligence (COMINT) market in the coming years.

What is Communication Intelligence (COMINT)?

COMINT is the information collected from the communications between individuals, such as text messages, phone conversations, and numerous types of online communications. It seeks information related to text, voice, and signal transmissions and tries to identify a number of intelligence contemplations about them.

COMINT technology is used to understand the details about the communications such as:

• Who the communicating parties are
• The organizational function of the transmitter
• Where those parties are located
• Time & period of conversation
• The type of encryption used and whether it can be decrypted
• Frequencies and other technical information of note in the transmission

Friendly army conversations are also examined in the same way as a part of communications security (COMSEC). Even though intelligence departments in the U.S. have specified that COMINT is only interested in foreign individuals, the Snowden revelations demonstrate very similar techniques used on the country’s own residents. For instance, it was revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the information related to communications and associated metadata of private citizens since 2001.

Factors Impacting the Growth of the Communication Intelligence (COMINT) Market

Government organizations and defense sectors have been harnessing the benefits of COMINT technology since many years. In the last few years, COMINT technology has also been widely implemented in a wide array of areas such as radio frequency (RF), maritime domain awareness, jamming, spectrum mapping, eavesdropping, and cyber-security. Numerous organizations are adopting COMINT systems for enhanced security and protection, which is driving the growth of the communication intelligence (COMINT) market.

For instance, in January 2019, an advanced COMINT solutions provider, Elbit Systems Ltd., received $15 million contract projects from a hydrocarbon production and exploration firm, Energean plc, to offer improved security solutions for the offloading platform of the Karish-Tanin gas fields. Implementation of COMINT in multiple companies is likely to fuel the demand for COMINT technology in the coming years. As per statistics stated by Research Dive, the global communication intelligence (COMINT) market is projected to observe outstanding growth and hit $12,930.3 million in the 2022–2031 timeframe.

Impact of COVID-19 on the Communication Intelligence (COMINT) Market

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a mild impact on military and the defence sector, and thus made a medium impact on the global communication intelligence (COMINT) industry. However, as the demand for military and defence operations is likely to increase in the next few years owing to growing unlawful national as well as international activities, technologies such as COMINT are expected to experience significant importance. Therefore, the global market for COMINT is projected to rise remarkably post-pandemic crisis.

Communication Intelligence (COMINT) Market Trends and Developments

Several players in the market, such as Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Dynamics Corporation, Raytheon Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation, L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Thales Group, BAE Systems, Saab AB, Elbit Systems Ltd., TCI International, Inc., HENSOLDT, and others are greatly investing in numerous developments related to COMINT technology. They are undertaking various activities, such as new product developments, adoption of new technologies, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and many more, to obtain a robust position in the communication intelligence (COMINT) market. For instance:

• In July 2020, Anritsu, a Japanese multinational corporation in the telecommunications electronics equipment market, joined hands with COMINT Consulting, a company focused on offering COMIINT related solutions, to add COMINT signals intelligence solution to Field Master Pro™ MS2090A RTSA.
   
• In September 2020, Rohde & Schwarz, a foremost naval communications intelligence solutions company, launched the multichannel naval COMINT system to help increase situational awareness on naval vessels and expand surveillance competences.
   
• In October 2020, TCI International, Inc., a provider of turn-key solutions for spectrum monitoring & management, geolocation, direction finding, and communications intelligence, announced its plan to implement radio frequency machine learning (RFML) into their signals intelligence (SIGINT) and communications intelligence (COMINT) offerings.

Such developments by key players of the communication intelligence (COMINT) market are expected to unlock profitable opportunities for the global market in the near future.

Most Profitable Region

North America region is expected to be most dominant in terms of growth during the forecast period. This is mainly because the US is the consistent leader in adopting new technologies for it’s defense sector. Besides, COMINT will eventually benefit from the increased financing in the countries like the US and Canada for science & technology and military & intelligence. Moreover, the government’s are encouraging the use of cutting-edge technologies like SIGINT which is predicted to drive the growth of the regional communication intelligence (COMINT) market in the coming future.