Direction du renseignement militaire

• 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

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.

• ISRAEL - Shin Bet opposes National Guard plan
  

• FRANCE - DRM appoints civilian as "platform" chief
  

• UKRAINE - Information protection service sets up new partnerships
  

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

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.

• 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

Secretive military intelligence unit Paros targets Islamic militants for elimination 

By staffing it, the French military intelligence directorate (DRM) has exposed the existence of its top-secret unit Paros. This unit is responsible for locating high-value targets for France's special forces to kill, as the country moves towards a two-pronged intelligence-special forces approach in the Sahel.