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 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. [...]

FRANCEEUROPE 05/04/2007

Jean-Francois Bureau

The director of France’s Delegation a l’Information et la Communication [...]

FRANCE 22/03/2007

Tug of War Over Syracuse 3C Satellite

A few lines in a speech by French presidential candidate [...]

FRANCE 22/02/2007

Keynectis Puts Sequoia on Display

Hailing from the banking, defense and finance sectors, French experts who specialize in securing communications and in electronic signatures attended a presentation by Keynectis of its new Sequoia solution on Feb. 13. [...]

FRANCE 08/02/2007

Government Monitoring Contracts

The French government's leading business intelligence aide, Alain Juillet, is [...]

FRANCE 07/12/2006

Jacques de Lajugie

For the first time, an official who isn't an armaments [...]

FRANCE 05/10/2006

Henri Serres

A former member of DGSE's technical department (1981-87), Henri Serres [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 21/09/2006

French Doctrine and its European Dimension

When it comes to fighting terrorism can security blend with a country’s defense effort? The question was asked during a defense seminar organized in Aix en Province on Sept. 11-12 by the chairman of the French parliament’s defense committee, Guy [...]

FRANCE 21/09/2006

Navy Pushes its Man to Top Post

The forthcoming appointment of vice-admiral Edouard Guillaud as French president Jacques Chirac’s military chief-of-staff resulted from a lot of cautious horse-trading. [...]

FRANCE 20/07/2006

Safran Split by Snecma/Sagem Feud

A boardroom war is in full sway at France’s Safran. Some are likening the battle to the recent rift in EADS. [...]

FRANCE 20/07/2006

No Arms Agency Merger

A recent proposal by legislator Yves Fromion to turn the former arms agency Sofema into an affiliate of Sofresa (IOL [...]

FRANCE 08/06/2006

Nodal a Talent Scout

Linked to the French defense ministry, Nodal Consultants identifies and finds markets for innovative technologies, particularly those with dual use potential. [...]