Direction du renseignement militaire

Africa, Germany
Aerodata equips Abidjan's surveillance aircraft to fight piracy

The German aeronautical engineering company Aerodata is integrating ISR technologies into two Beechcraft King Air aircraft for the Ivorian air force.

The Tech Times
Artemis rolls out at DRM, RB 42 prospects at Campus Cyber, Khoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark at US Cybercom PEO, Orchestra closes London office

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

France
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.

The Intelligence Gazette
Outcry over Ben Givr's national guard plan, civilian lands senior DRM post, Ukraine's SSSCIP finds new partners

Israel
Shin Bet opposes National Guard plan

France
DRM appoints civilian as "platform" chief

Ukraine
Information protection service sets up new partnerships

France
Paris relaunches New Caledonian spatial and intelligence hub

A new satellite receiver is to be installed at the Nouméa-La Tontouta air base in New Caledonia, signalling the facility's growing importance in the Indo-Pacific regional power struggle against China.

France
Anticiper seeks to export DRM's Battle Lab to private sector

The four cofounders of the French firm Anticiper have taken inspiration from French military Intelligence Campus tools to develop solutions for private companies.

France
French military consulting firm DCI's failed ISR ambitions return to haunt it in court case

DCI has not finished paying the price for its thwarted ISR ambitions, while even bigger issues about its future hang in the balance.

The Intelligence Gazette
CIA's HR woes, Hamas and Taliban in Istanbul, Tbilisi's oligarchs, France's DPR, China worries Russia, repatriated Afghans

United States
CIA experimenting to solve HR crisis

Turkey/Palestine/Afghanistan
Istanbul hosts Hamas-Taliban rapprochement

Georgia
Tbilisi looks into its oligarchs

France
DPR still not entitled to know about operations in progress

Russia
Moscow's foreign affairs ministry reassesses view of China

Afghanistan/Europe
Europe's greater numbers of repatriated Afghans

France
DRSD positions itself as French defence big data technology hub

France's defence security and intelligence service has developed a number of data tools that it is touting to other branches of the intelligence community.

Spotlight | France
OTDH provides test for French cyber-intelligence ecosystem

The DGSI's trials of the OTDH heterogenous data analysis platform will show if the French cyber marketplace has room for a newcomer unconnected to the traditional defence suppliers Thales, Dassault and Airbus.

France
French military gets offensive again in its information warfare against Russia

The French government is once more deploying its inter-force environmental actions centre's (CIAE) digital operations group (GON) to conduct online influence operations against Russia.

France
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.

Spotlight | France
DGSE draws up French military appropriations bill wish list

French intelligence services attached to the defence ministry are hoping to gain easier access to algorithms, data, cookies and DNA samples. Their needs will be discussed at a defence and national security council meeting led by President Macron this week.

The Intelligence Gazette
Hossein Taeb dismissed, DGSE gets Tripoli villa, DRM celebrates 30th anniversary, New narrative in Belarus

Iran
Tehran's Pasdaran spymaster on the way out

France
Luxury villa awaits DGSE chief in Tripoli

France
Ex-directors absent from DRM's 30th anniversary

Belarus
New narrative in security circles towards the West

France
Safran overtakes L3 in the final stretch to win French spy plane camera contract

L3Harris, the US group which produces the Wescam camera, had been the favourite but, in the end, France's Vador intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft will be fitted with Safran's Euroflir 410 cameras. One plane is already in service over Romania but is not fully equipped.

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

Two consortia have come up with proposals for strong Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) packages for the French intelligence services. One is led by French big data analysis specialist ChapsVision, the other by defence electronics group Thales.

France
French military counter-espionage service set for a new director

Eric Bucquet is to hand over as head of the defence security intelligence service, the DRSD, this summer and he should be succeeded by Stéphane Dupont, currently in charge of French forces in Djibouti.

The Intelligence Gazette
CIA, Georgia's GIS, Hamas finance, DGSE operations

United States
CIA's spies experience housing crisis in Langley

Georgia
Government increases oversight of GIS' international dealings

Palestine/Turkey
Hamas still receiving funds from Turkey

France
DGSE operations department poised to get new chief