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Government Intelligence 06/12/2021

French Senate finds DGSE's 2022 budget a tricky fit

Surveillance & Interception 06/12/2021

French intelligence and army ponder spy plane hire from CAE

As France begins to phase out the use of its Transall C-160 Gabriel planes, the air force and external intelligence service are considering an option to lease an high capacity aircraft from CAE Aviation, a provider that has long served France's airborne interception (SIGINT) missions. [...]

International Dealmaking 03/12/2021

Doha-Washington honeymoon helps US firm 911 Security land football World Cup 2022 counter-drone contract

Two French consortiums appear to have been pipped to the post by the Texan firm 911 Security, thanks to the current warm relations between the US administration and Qatar. [...]

Government Intelligence 02/12/2021

French army special forces chiefs race for key intelligence posts

The senior officers' transfer market is hotting up as land army special forces commanders prepare to go after a number of top intelligence service posts which are due for renewal. [...]

International Dealmaking 01/12/2021

Framatome and Rosatom support Kazakhstan's nuclear ambitions

The appointment of a new boss at state-owned Kazatomprom coincides with a speeding up of Kazakh civil nuclear ambitions. The sector has attracted foreign partners as diverse as the part-public China General Nuclear Power Corporation, Russia's state owned Rosatom and France's Framatome. [...]

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International Dealmaking 01/12/2021

Tax authorities catch up with hidden 'Kazakhgate' commission

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's representative for Central Asia, Aymeri de Montesquiou received an undeclared sum of €199,000 during a project with oligarch Patokh Chodiev, the primary mediator in Airbus Group's military equipment and satellite deal with Kazakhstan. [...]

French former UDI Senator Aymeri de Montesquiou. © Vincent Isore/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

SpotlightInternational Dealmaking 30/11/2021

Datalink integrates French military surveillance systems sold to Riyadh

The Saudi company is helping its French partners involved in the satellite communications component of the huge French-Saudi arms programme, SFMC, now underway. [...]

Government Intelligence 30/11/2021

Tracfin still waiting for its 'Sirano' big data platform

Although French financial intelligence service Tracfin has grown fast in line with its growing responsabilities in recent years, it has been finding it more difficult to keep its technical capacities up to speed. Its 'Sirano' big data platform programme, which was first developed by Capgemini, is running five years late. [...]

Surveillance & Interception 30/11/2021

Avascent takes off into New Space focussing on intelligence

US specialist in due diligence on high-profile companies, Avascent, has been commissioned to carry out an assignment on a French start-up that is working in space intelligence. The request reflects the race for funds in which this niche market's main players are currently engaged. [...]

Surveillance & Interception 29/11/2021

Arrest of French cybersecurity agency volunteer calls cyber ransom negotiation into question

As in the "real world", the payment of ransoms in cyberspace is of concern to governments and insurance companies, as the recent arrest of a French 'ethical' hacker has highlighted. [...]

Surveillance & Interception 25/11/2021

Unseenlabs looks to enlist ex-NGA executive to boost US operation

French signals intelligence satellite operator Unseenlabs is looking to bring in new consultants to help establish itself in the United States. Among them is Keith Masback, former head of the Open Sources Group at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. [...]

International Dealmaking 23/11/2021

Gulf rivals enter Indonesian fighter contest between Rafale and F-16

France is trying to get Abu Dhabi to finance Jakarta's procurement of Rafale while the Indonesian government has turned to the more US-friendly Doha. [...]

Indonesian defence minister Prabowo Subianto and French defence minister Florence Parly signed a defence cooperation agreement in Paris on 28 June 2021. © Facebook The Indonesian Embassy in Paris

Government Intelligence 22/11/2021

French Intelligence service dodges compensation claim from former Indian informer

In the absence of a clear, all-purpose legal framework, the intelligence services increasingly find themselves having to fight their former paid informers in court. An Indian informer of the French internal intelligence service has just had his claim thrown out by the French Council of State. [...]

Corporate Intelligence 18/11/2021

China's Fatri gets foothold in France through Airbus and French parliament connections

Specialising in microchips, an activity that is at the centre of US-Chinese rivalry, China's Fatri is treading carefully as it pursues its push into France. [...]

Fatri founder Yongzhong Nie (left) welcomed LREM MP Jean-Michel Mis to China in 2019. © jeanmichelmis.fr

Surveillance & Interception 17/11/2021

French Vador spy plane to change its ISR systems

Dogged by various technical problems, the French ISR plane programme, intended to support intelligence operations in the Sahel and the Levant, is having to rethink its industrial choices. [...]

One of the Beechcraft King Air 350 from the Vador programme. © Base aérienne 105 Evreux-Fauville/Armée de l'air et de l'espace/Twitter

Surveillance & Interception 16/11/2021

Prométhée offers custom-made geospatial intelligence platforms to Gulf and African clients

Drawing on chairman Olivier Piepsz's extensive business network, the French geospatial intelligence start-up Prométhée has locked in a string of partnerships with players in the French space sector and is now attracting prospective clients in the Gulf and Africa. [...]

Corporate Intelligence 16/11/2021

FTI's French investigations team falls apart

FTI Consulting is the latest in a string of big US and British firms to fail in the French marketplace. With the departure of its head of investigations, Stéphanie Lhomme, the Parisian consulting firm has been turned upside down. [...]

Surveillance & Interception 11/11/2021

Franco-Canadian venture RFence debuts in radio-frequency interceptions market

Financed by French public sector investment bank Bpifrance and Canadian partners, the young French company RFence aims to break into the radio-frequency interceptions market, starting with the fast-growing market for the detection of physical intrusions. [...]

Corporate Intelligence 09/11/2021

New anti-bribery bill appears doomed

MP Raphaël Gauvain still hasn't managed to get his draft "Sapin 3" law onto parliament's agenda. Various stakeholders, such as France's anticorruption agency, senior civil servants and local authorities have laboured to bury the bill even as the OECD is evaluating the country and some foreign jurisdictions are keeping a close eye on it. [...]

Government Intelligence 09/11/2021

Lebanon's port security services seek good practice advice from Le Havre and Marseille

Beirut port security officials who are in competition with one another and still struggling to work together, visited France to pick up security tips from French port operations, a trip that drew interest from French company CMA CGM, which has a stake in the Beirut port reconstruction. [...]

International Dealmaking 09/11/2021

HeidelbergCement follows Vicat's lead and challenges Cairo

The cement sector is a crucial part of President Abdel Fattah al Sisi's future administrative capital mega-project. Dominated by the Egyptian army, the sector has suffered a new setback following German company HeidelbergCement and its French and Italian subsidiaries' decision to register a request for arbitration proceedings with the World Bank's arbitration court, ICSID. [...]

HeidelbergCement Group has been present in the Egyptian market since 2016 when it became a shareholder in Suez Cement. © heidelbergcement.com

International Dealmaking 08/11/2021

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh talks satellites and energy in Paris

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his influential Minister of Public Security To Lam were in France from 3 to 5 November. This visit was an opportunity to review the prospects of certain major French industrialists looking towards Hanoi. [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh at the Elysée Palace.

SpotlightGovernment Intelligence 05/11/2021

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ALL ARTICLES - FRANCE

French Senate finds DGSE's 2022 budget a tricky fit

French intelligence and army ponder spy plane hire from CAE

Doha-Washington honeymoon helps US firm 911 Security land football World Cup 2022 counter-drone contract

French army special forces chiefs race for key intelligence posts

Framatome and Rosatom support Kazakhstan's nuclear ambitions

Tax authorities catch up with hidden 'Kazakhgate' commission

Datalink integrates French military surveillance systems sold to Riyadh

Tracfin still waiting for its 'Sirano' big data platform

Avascent takes off into New Space focussing on intelligence

Arrest of French cybersecurity agency volunteer calls cyber ransom negotiation into question

Unseenlabs looks to enlist ex-NGA executive to boost US operation

Gulf rivals enter Indonesian fighter contest between Rafale and F-16

French Intelligence service dodges compensation claim from former Indian informer

China's Fatri gets foothold in France through Airbus and French parliament connections

French Vador spy plane to change its ISR systems

Prométhée offers custom-made geospatial intelligence platforms to Gulf and African clients

FTI's French investigations team falls apart

Franco-Canadian venture RFence debuts in radio-frequency interceptions market

New anti-bribery bill appears doomed

Lebanon's port security services seek good practice advice from Le Havre and Marseille

HeidelbergCement follows Vicat's lead and challenges Cairo

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh talks satellites and energy in Paris

Lagrange, French intelligence's covert technical forum

Parliament is latest body to fret about AID defence innovation agency

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