Europe
Tekever and CLS strengthen their presence in EU maritime surveillance

France
French coastguards aim to boost surveillance capacity with big data analytics

The French customs service wants to set up a national centre to improve integration and analysis of its ever more diverse intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data.

The Tech Telegraph
Rayzone founder goes solo, Grayshift in the EU, AmCham Abu Dhabi cloud, EU maritime security GEOINT

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.

Tel AvivRayzone co-founder Ron Zilka goes solo.

Atlanta/HelsinkiUS Grayshift joins forces with Finland's Moonsoft as it spreads its European wings.

Abu Dhabi/WashingtonAmCham Abu Dhabi ropes in more cloud specialists with Red Hat and Trend Micro.

MadridSpain's GMV to provide algorithms to European Maritime Safety Agency for GEOINT data analysis.

BrusselsAndreas Constantinides, former APCO and Amcham EU, turns European lobbyist for the US cloud.

France, United Kingdom
French government beefs up English Channel monitoring with British-funded technology

As France and Britain's various quarrels continue, the French Gendarmermie is poised to strengthen its airborne surveillance of migrant crossings in the English Channel with Britain's help. The French gendarmerie is going to beef up its airborne intelligence system, known as ISR, in the English Channel, thanks to a grant from London.

Spotlight | Europe
Athens in drone technology spree

Greece is quietly developing its own drone industry while its security services, faced with urgent needs, continue to import off-the-shelf technology from France and Germany.

Spotlight | Europe
ANSSI and BSI pave the way for European cyber certification

After having adamantly resisted the creation of a European certification system, French and German cyber security agencies, ANSSI and BSI, are now pressing for mutual recognition of their respective cyber certification systems. As a result, certified operators in both countries can look forward to doubling the size of their markets overnight.

Europe
EU bets on big data and drones to combat heritage trafficking

While Europol recently warned that heritage trafficking is on the increase, the Cyprus Institute is leading the EU-funded Significance and SHIELD projects in an attempt to combat it using intelligence technology.

Europe, Qatar, United States
Doha tries to sell drones to Europe

John Hardwick, the new chief executive of Barzan Aeronautical (IOL 873), toured Europe last month with the firm's counsel Christopher [...]

Tekever takes its drones to the Mediterranean to cash in on fortress Europe

The Portuguese maker of surveillance UAVs is to give Tunisia's defence ministry a demonstration of its wares. It has its eye on a slice of EU funding for programmes in Tunisia and Libya aimed at preventing irregular migrants reaching its borders.

Portugal's Tekever harnesses its French connections to expand into Africa

Tekever is about to seal a deal with the Senegalese fishing ministry to secure its waters. With the help of French security contractors, the company is also reaching out to several other African countries.