SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION

• CREIL - Artemis roll-out speeds up

• PARIS - RB 42 woos French companies for Singapore at Campus Cyber

• FORT MEADE - Khoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark as head of acquisitions at US CYBERCOM

• LONDON - Omri Lavie and Isaac Zack's cyber firm Orchestra Group closing UK subsidiary

• SAN FRANCISCO - FBI veteran Michael Morgan joins NightDragon

• TOULOUSE - Loft Orbital picks Frédéric Cristini

• WARSAW - Polish border guards renew maritime surveillance aircraft

French defence ministry rolls out cyber emergency response centre for defence firms 

Parliamentary discussion of France's draft 2024-2030 military programming bill has put the spotlight on an initiative by the DRSD to provide a computer emergency response team for the defence sector, which is currently being deployed in key regions.

Israeli IMSI-catcher specialist PicSix struggles to establish itself in Bucharest 

Israeli IMSI-catcher specialist PicSix is engaged in an intense legal battle with Romanian equipment distributor Cellphone Group Impex, after its performance on a contract from the National Anti-Corruption Directorate exposed the limits of its equipment.

French military intelligence hires CAE to cover ISR missions before Archange 

As they wait for project Archange to be operational, the French armed forces have turned to their long-standing provider CAE Aviation to provide a temporary airborne SIGINT solution.

Long-awaited Falcon Archange enters test phase 

A major French intelligence programme, dubbed 'Archange', aimed at strengthening France's intelligence gathering capabilities, is currently being tested. This project is aimed at improving their performances in the field, whose weaknesses have been highlighted by the war in Ukraine.

• WASHINGTON - Former National Cyber Director Inglis joins CSC 2.0

• SINGAPORE - Grayshift partners with PCS Security
  

• PARIS - Ministry of interior's Cyber3 programme delayed
  

Reaper crash impairs NATO Black Sea intelligence gathering 

In a context where an offensive from the Ukrainian armed forces looks imminent, NATO's intelligence gathering missions in the Black Sea have declined since the Reaper drone crash in March. The incident could put sensitive information on the type of technologies used in those missions in Russia's hands.

• PARIS - RB 42, European cyber ecosytem pioneer
  

• LUXEMBOURG - Arianespace's Vega-C launcher rocket leaves spy satellite in the lurch
  

• WASHINGTON/TAIPEI - Lobbying in Congress for cybersecurity rapprochement with Taiwan
  

Belgian federal police assemble new OSINT unit 

Seeking to strengthen its open source intelligence capabilities, Belgium's federal police has launched a specialised service in Brussels that is, for the moment, using technology from Social Links and Maltego.

NATO intelligence fears Russian access to Link 16 technology after Black Sea crash of Reaper drone 

Russia's recovery of certain strategic bricks - including optronics, satcom and Link 16 data - on the Reaper that crashed into the Black Sea last month could have a critical impact.

• QUANTICO - ManTech, top provider to NCIS's Neptune Silo unit

• BRUSSELS/MADRID - Tecnobit to handle Galileo's second-generation secure communications

• WASHINGTON - Senate blurry on US Cyber Command's cyber intelligence operations

French defence ministry considers setting up armed forces OSINT campus 

French procurement and technology agency, the DGA, which originally left open source intelligence matters to defence innovation agency AID, is considering setting up a new OSINT campus to bring together the country's specialist operators in that field.

French OSINT touts GDPR compliance to rival growing US competition 

As foreign open source intelligence providers for governments take hold in the European market, French specialists in the field are flagging concerns about those companies not being bound by EU data protection laws, even as French operators turn to Israeli providers.