Armenia, France
French defence eyes Armenian developer Addevice's AI language tools

Armenia, Azerbaijan
Caucasus rail projects under strain from Armenia-Azerbaijan security tensions

Uncertainty over the proposed peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the resulting instability is putting pressure on a French company's railway projects in the Caucasus.

Europe
EU defence summit: Paris positioning itself on nuclear, AI and space imagery

EU leaders gathered for an extraordinary summit in Brussels yesterday to discuss European rearmament and Ukraine ahead of another meeting in Paris next week of the block's chiefs of staff. France is pushing for a leading role on nuclear power, artificial intelligence and space imagery.

France
ChapsVision buys former DGSE technical director's secure messaging platform

The French firm has acquired encrypted messaging platform Frogtrust, developed by former DGSE technical director Yves Mathian.

France
ADIT calls on ChapsVision cyber tools as ties strengthen

The French corporate intelligence leader is keen to work more closely with the cyber intelligence services provider. Their talks, so far around technical points, come just months before ADIT is to see a change of shareholders.

France
French justice ministry's PNIJ intercept platform shunned by investigators

France's agency for digital judicial investigation techniques and the justice ministry are trying to limit circumvention of the PNIJ national digital interceptions platform. With private providers improving their solutions, in-house modules are also being developed and pressure put on magistrates to change their habits.

France, UAE
Interceptions company Trovicor mutates to become DataFusion.ai

Under its new name, the company, which has specialised until now in lawful interception under the ownership of French cyber veterans Stéphane Salies and Olivier Bohbot, is to market data fusion systems for intelligence purposes.

The Tech Telegraph
EU's 'Going Dark' report, Addevice moves into security, Michael Weigand leaves Shift5

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.

BrusselsEU police data access report pushes for cooperation with messaging platforms over intrusion

YerevanAddevice plugs its tech to security firms

WashingtonShift5 co-founder Michael Weigand quits

France
ChapsVision snaps up Corexalys's OSINT business

The latest French intelligence tool that the big data specialist has its eye on is the software development unit set up by French corporate intelligence firm Corexalys.

France
Interior ministry's first Cyber III awards favour ChapsVision

The French interior ministry has begun awarding the first contracts of the hotly-contested tender call of its Cyber III investment plan, and the contender leading the pack so far is Olivier Dellenbach's ChapsVision.

France
ChapsVision integrates recently acquired Systran at breakneck speed

The takeover of machine translation specialist Systran by the data fusion company ChapsVision has sent shock waves through the French technical intelligence community.

Europe
France's Nexa acquires European interception specialist Trovicor

According to our sources, Nexa Technologies is putting the finishing touches to a deal to acquire the German legal interceptions firm Trovicor.