French military counter-espionage service set for a new director

• NEW YORK - Feldman to take over from Nardello in London.

• LONDON - Death knell sounds for Optima Defence & Security Group.

• AIX-EN-PROVENCE/ROME - Ilios International looks towards Italy.

• US - Sparacino without Veretus.

• PARIS - DRSD boss leaves for Sanofi.

French military intelligence agency tries out fusion cells 

France's military intelligence directorate's latest fusion cell, dubbed the "Plateau Méditerranée", is designed to help it better anticipate crises in the strategic region amid mounting in-house organisational woes and staffing issues.

Elysée Palace weighs in to solve French intel staffing woes 

Understaffed units, top-heavy management, recruitment difficulties and brain drain are among the human resources challenges that intelligence coordinator Laurent Nunez's team has been entrusted with tackling.

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.

Military security gets a bumper budget allocation in 2022 

After a big increase in funding for France's DGSE external intelligence service in 2021, it will be the turn of the DRSD, defence intelligence and security service, to receive substantial fresh funding for its major development projects in 2022.