Trireme Partners LLP

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Trireme Partners LLP is a limited partnership venture capital company that invests in technology, goods, and services related to Homeland Security and defense, with particular emphasis on Information technology. They are active in acquiring technologies deemed useful to the ambitious Total Information Awareness project which aims to aggregate vast amounts of data on regular individuals that is currently stored in disparate databases, and make this information available to the United States government.

Company principals include Richard Perle and Gerald Hillman. Conrad Black serves on its advisory board, as did Henry Kissinger until early 2003. Trireme Partners is a Delaware Corporation registered in November 2001, two months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. $20 million of investment capital in the firm has been provided by Boeing.

In March of 2003, Richard Perle became embroiled in controversy after The New Yorker published an article by Seymour Hersh which describes a meeting with Perle, the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and Saudi businessman Harb Zuhair in which he allegedly offered to influence American foreign policy in Saudi Arabia in exchange for investment in Trireme.

The name "Trireme" is taken from a Greek warship with three banks of rowers.