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Kyiv promotes cyber sharing, Iran deploys Cobra V8 jammer, DGSE after AI data analysis

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Kyiv RNBO promotes cyber collaboration

Tehran Iran's Revolutionary Guard receives first Cobra V8 SIGINT

Paris DGSE develops AI algorithms on databases

French MPs slam special funds budget as miscalculated

There is a recurring theme in the French special funds verification committee's detailed 2021 report: those funds' budgets are systematically underestimated.

France's parliamentary intelligence delegation laments missing classified documents

The parliamentary intelligence delegation has highlighted limitations on its mission to monitor and evaluate French intelligence policy, including heavily redacted notes and missing reports, and is calling for better treatment.

The Agencies' Gazette
DPR and fiscal intelligence, La France Insoumise and the CNCTR

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceParliamentary intelligence delegation still queries new fiscal intelligence unit

FranceParliament rejects La France Insoumise support of intelligence techniques surveillance unit

French gendarmes top users of legal interception platform

In 2022, users of the French national interception platform PNIJ made 46,000 legal interception requests and filed 2.9 million requests for connection data. The Gendarmerie is the platform's number one user.

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France strengthens Middle East interceptions apparatus to cover Israel-Palestine crisis

The Cyprus resort of Paphos is home to a French interceptions facility currently being reinforced as the crisis in the Middle East deepens. France is also looking to beef up its analysis as it starts to communicate more on its intelligence.

Counter-drone flyweight Drone XTR takes on sector giants

The Havre-based counter-drone specialist looks set to win a €7m contract with the French air traffic control agency to equip airports with counter-drone capacities, but questions remain about where the technology comes from and how efficient it will be.

Influence battle between Israel and Gulf nations plays out in Nice

Global Diwan, a French-Middle Eastern business club, has pushed back the date of its second annual forum in Nice, where the mayor, a long-standing friend of the Israeli consulting firm Elnet, has been outspoken in his support of Israel.

Airbus parts ways with local chief after hitting turbulent skies in Saudi Arabia

The planemaker's passive approach towards sales contracts in Saudi Arabia, in both civil aeronautics and defence communications, has led to the company jettisoning its local CEO, Adel Fekih.

France's Défense Conseil International poised for change in wake of acquisition by ADIT

DCI is set to boost its line of training and consulting services for foreign armies with more cyber, anti-drone and geospatial intelligence training.

Senate hits gender parity problem over nominations to intelligence oversight commission

Following the French senatorial elections in September, the French Senate has had to renew its representatives on two intelligence service oversight bodies. Yet the Socialist group has hit a gender parity problem over its nominations to one of them.

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Panic over Chinese consultant in French space defence sector

Starburst Aerospace, the incubator for technical innovation in the space sector, recently called in the former boss of the French branch of Chinese geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) group Head. Blacklisted in the US, Head has sold spy satellites to Russia's Wagner group.

The Agencies' Gazette
No new AUKUS members, DGSE renovations, Beijing watching IDF, GIGN and RAID on France-Canada flights

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United KingdomOpposition to AUKUS expansion over intelligence technologies

FranceFurther refurbishment for DGSE before relocation

China/IsraelBeijing eyes on Baladia City training centre

FranceArmed GIGN and RAID officers board France-Canada flights after 15 years of talks

French intelligence delves back into Chechen diaspora

At a time of heightened terrorism threat, the main exiled Chechen leaders are refocusing on radicalisation prevention among their youth, an issue that had been put on the back burner in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.