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

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French interior ministry seeks new investigation platform

The French interior ministry has set the process in motion to replace its investigative platform Analyst Notebook, designed by UK firm I2 Group. This potentially lucrative contract is drawing specialists in the field in droves.

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Look Up Space, Tokyo builds informational warfare centre, Arfan Chaudhry joins Saudi Space Agency

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

Toulouse Look Up Space on recruitment drive

Tokyo Japan to get informational warfare centre

Riyadh Saudi space agency pursues international partners

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After Deveryware, Chapsvision targets deal with Ockham

France's ChapsVision is continuing its shopping spree in its domestic big data marketplace. Olivier Dellenbach's group has entered talks with the telephone metadata analysis company Ockham alongside negotiations to acquire Deveryware.

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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.

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French geolocation specialist Sysnav tests its systems in the US

Sysnav is working with the French interior ministry's STSI2 department on the development of systems to coordinate the tracking of individuals. For some months, the French start-up has also been working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US, which is interested in its system, which does not use GPS.

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Comcyber picks all-in-one command and control platform favourites

France's defence innovation agency has selected the metaverse cyber operations command centre project that Airbus and its university partner IMT Atlantique developed as part of a government-run call for cybersecurity projects.

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Cyber Impact Fund poaches national cybersecurity policy officer William Lecat

The new French fund specialised in supporting European cyber start-ups has made its first two investments. William Lecat will be responsible for investing in 20 other start-ups over the next five years.

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French cyber partners Roussely and Taleb continue to grow their empire

French cyber veterans Bernard Roussely and Alexandre Taleb are quietly building themselves a small empire in France, Lebanon and Switzerland via the firms Euler Technology Solutions and Beware Cyberlabs.

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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.

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Intelligence newbies consortium, Aleia, aims for Artémis and OTDH

With its platform, offering a collection of tools developed by various start-ups, Aleia wants to be part of France's military intelligence and internal security data analysis programmes.