Janes

Janes is a global open-source intelligence company specializing in military, national security, aerospace, and transportation topics. The company's full name is Janes Information Group. Janes provides market intelligence reports, publications, and strategic services to defence and security companies. The CEO is Blake Bartlett.

The company and its name are derived from Fred T. Jane and his works. Jane founded Janes Information Group in 1898, which is also when he published his first book, All the World's Fighting Ships. As an avid wargamer, he wrote and published several more warship and aircraft reference books through the late 1800s and early 1900s. Jane died in 1916.

Janes provides various strategic and intelligence services to defence industry companies and national security and government agencies. Janes offers different forms of intelligences, including threat intelligence, defence industry intelligence, country intelligence, and equipment intelligence.

Janes' program Intara provides businesses with interconnected intelligence, based on millions of assured data points collected by Janes since its conception in 1898.

Companies can set up consultations with Janes to evaluate their defence needs and concerns. Janes can analyze and evaluate a company's competitors, potential markets, and supply chains. Janes' intelligence reports can help defence companies identify key events and information and find technical and capability information about global military equipment, which give those companies a competitive advantage over other defence companies.

Janes publishes periodical magazines as well as yearly reference books, referred to as yearbooks. Current periodical publications as of 2021 are Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's Defence and Intelligence Review. Janes also publishes directories, including Janes World Defence Industry, Janes International Defence Directory, and Janes International ABC Aerospace Directory. Janes publishes yearbooks on a wide variety of topics and subsections within those topics such as weapons, transportation, and maritime. Competing publication companies include Aviation Week Network, DVV Media Group, and Sightline Media Group.