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Dassault looms large behind DGSI data analysis platform hopeful Bloom

France
DGSI big data programme struggles to get into second gear

The start of the second phase of work on the big data analytics platform being set up by France's internal security service, the DGSI, has been delayed for a second time.

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DGA-MI automates electronic warfare; Jean-Matthieu Tilquin joins ChapsVision; DARPA explores quantic computing; Advent International beefs up intelligence portfolio

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of the technical intelligence providers.

Bruz France's DGA-MI takes interest in AI for electronic warfare

Washington DARPA launches prospection for quantic computing

Paris Jean-Matthieu Tilquin leaves Bloom for ChapsVision

Boston Advent International pursues its intelligence acquisitions, buying Maxar

Spotlight | France
OTDH provides test for French cyber-intelligence ecosystem

The DGSI's trials of the OTDH heterogenous data analysis platform will show if the French cyber marketplace has room for a newcomer unconnected to the traditional defence suppliers Thales, Dassault and Airbus.

France
Newcomer ChapsVision makes acquisition play for geolocation veteran Deveryware

ChapsVision is now in exclusive negotiations to take control of Deveryware, an acquisition that would further bolster a group angling for some of the French government's most sensitive technical intelligence contracts.

France
Corporate intelligence firms Axis, Corexalys get into OSINT platform market

After developing a digital investigation and data aggregation platform for its own use, Axis is now moving into this marketplace, along with a growing number of companies keen to land contracts with private and public clients.

France
Atos Digital Security to chaperone Aleph on cybersecurity market

Thanks to its latest fundraising operation, French dark web investigations specialist Aleph Networks has found itself an ideal partner for its move into the cybersecurity market: Atos Digital Security, the cyber security arm of France's IT group Atos.

France
AID seeds new information warfare capacities with Bloom

Being a target in the informational warfare triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war, France has been actively seeking out the latest cyber intelligence tools, notably by deploying the start-up Bloom on social media.

France
ChapsVision and Thales take charge of Grand Cyber's CTI component

Two consortia have come up with proposals for strong Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) packages for the French intelligence services. One is led by French big data analysis specialist ChapsVision, the other by defence electronics group Thales.

France
French domestic intelligence service invited to join military cyber R&D center

A team of engineers from France's DGSI internal intelligence service is to be sent to the French defence ministry base in Bruz in Britanny. The centre designs cyber systems for the army but also develops big data and analytics systems, which are a key area of interest for the DGSI.

France
DGSE secures its public-private partnerships

The French foreign intelligence service wants to better address the intellectual property issues of the technologies it creates internally, in particular in its secret incubator.

France
DGSI looks to get ahead with predictive algorithms

After carrying out an end-of-year review of progress on its future big data analytics system OTDH, France's internal intelligence service, the DGSI, is looking to upgrade its technology capacity through the use of predictive analytics.

France
Emerging French Tech champions battle for the DGSI's big data contract

The plans of the French domestic intelligence service, the DGSI, to set up a new big data processing platform are not only attracting the defence groups which generally win contracts from the intelligence services. Newer operators from other sectors are also showing interest.