DGA

The DGA (Direction Generale de l’Armement), part of the French ministry of defence, is responsible for procurement of the French armed forces as well as promoting the French defence industry abroad. The DGA works jointly with France’s partners and companies in the defence sector such as Dassault, Airbus or DCNS to develop new equipment for the military.

FRANCE 22/10/2008

Imbroglio Over Jammers 

Bureaucratic procedures are still holding up the delivery of anti-IED jammers that the French Army needs for its overseas operations. [...]

FRANCE 08/10/2008

French Contingent in Kabul Waits for Jammers 

Ordered last summer by the French armaments board Delegation Generale pour l’Armament (DGA), 135 anti-Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) jammers for [...]

FRANCE 08/10/2008

Procurements Board Urgently Seeks New Hardware 

According to our sources, a team from the French armaments [...]

FRANCE 24/09/2008

Biological Terrorism Scenarios 

An organization named Bio3R, which stands for "Bioterrorism, Resilience, Research, [...]

FRANCE 10/09/2008

Silver Arrow UAVs for Afghanistan? 

According to our sources, officials from the French armaments board Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA) flew to Israel last week [...]

FRANCE 23/07/2008

Splitting Duties between DAS and DGA 

The French authorities have made their final decisions on a debate that began in 2007 on reorganizing arms sales procedures at the defense ministry. [...]

FRANCE 23/04/2008

Jacques Bongrand 

The Research and Technology Organization (RTO) which sees to exchanges [...]

FRANCE 09/04/2008

CEIS: A Decade of Discreet Growth 

The CEIS company which marked its 10th anniversary in Paris on April 8, has become one of the biggest players in French business intelligence. [...]

FRANCE 12/03/2008

Taking Stock of Counter-Proliferation 

The strategic committee of the Proliferatrion Security Initiative (PSI), an [...]

FRANCE 27/02/2008

A Tortuous Route for Key Data 

By moving its offices to a Paris suburb, France’s arms procurement agency Delegation Generale pour l’Armament may have unwittingly altered its relations with the French defense industry. [...]

Spotlight MIDDLE EAST 13/02/2008

A Patriot Missile Shield Against Iran 

In the wake of George W. Bush's tour of the region last month, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are set to supply several batches of Patriot missiles to the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Later, the two groups hope to equip [. [...]

FRANCE 13/02/2008

CSOSG, Breeding Ground for French Homeland Security  Free

France’s Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR) has just launched a third French domestic security research and technologies program under the acronym SCOSG. [...]

FRANCE 30/01/2008

Seminar on IED's 

France's leading civil defense panel and the military intelligence agency [...]

FRANCE 12/12/2007

Easing Arms Export Controls? 

The French are pondering the question of how far they should go to facilitate arms exports. The answer will come by next March. [...]

FRANCE 28/11/2007

Parliament Also Wants to Revamp Arms Sales 

Submitted to the French parliament's finance committee on Nov. 11, [...]

VENEZUELA 17/10/2007

Submarines for Bolivar Revolution? 

The self-appointed middleman between Paris and Colombia's FARC, Hugo Chavez would like Paris to let him buy French submarines in return for his services. [...]

FRANCE 17/10/2007

New Leadership for Arms Sales Push 

France’s failure to persuade Morocco to buy its Rafale fighter has prompted the defence industry and government to think of bringing exports under a single authority. [...]

INDIA 05/07/2007

Paris on the Defensive 

On good terms with Indian air force chiefs, French armaments companies are meeting ever tougher competition from Israeli and American companies. [...]

FRANCE 07/06/2007

Listening In On China 

According to our sources, the latest meeting of France's Comite d’Architecture des Systemes de Force (CASF), a panel jointly headed [...]

FRANCE 07/06/2007

From LVMH to EADS? 

Advisers to France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, are looking pretty well everywhere for a solution to the problems dogging EADS. [...]