Direction du Renseignement Militaire

France
Artemis military intelligence programme gets 2024 budget boost

An official budget document reveals that the big data processing programme operated by Thales and Atos is to get a much increased budget allocation next year.

France
Société Générale: security chief Antoine Creux's succession in limbo

A former commando frogman was shortlisted to succeed Antoine Creux as head of security at Société Générale, but not any more.

France
The high stakes of DGSI big data programme delays

Repeated delays for the phase two selection process of the French internal security service's big data analytics platform are changing the top line-up as key deadlines draw near.

France
DGSI big data programme struggles to get into second gear

The start of the second phase of work on the big data analytics platform being set up by France's internal security service, the DGSI, has been delayed for a second time.

France, Syria, United States
Lafarge targeted by new lawsuit in the US from families of Islamic State victims

The families of 15 US citizens who were victims of the Islamic State have filed a complaint against the French cement company Lafarge, which admitted to helping fund the terrorist organisation in Syria from 2013 to 2014.

France
French Interior Ministry picks Suadeo's big data solution for Paris 2024

Suadeo has been selected over Palantir and a joint venture between Atos and Thales to provide its data analytics tools for use during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the 2023 Rugby World Cup. The French Ministry of Interior is having to deal with shorter deadlines and tighter budgets.

France
DGSI big data analysis programme behind schedule

The successful bids for carrying out the second phase of the DGSI's OTDH big data analysis platform have not yet been chosen. An announcement had been due at the end of June, but now the summer shutdown has begun.

The Intelligence Gazette
NASA/Roscosmos, DGSE, Beijing's central military committee

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring you news from the US, Russia, France and China.

United States/Russia Roscosmos to provide security to NASA officers

France Senators see through DGSE recruitment numbers

China Security bodies directly answerable to Xi Jinping

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

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each Thursday we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

CreilArtemis roll-out speeds up

ParisRB 42 woos French companies for Singapore at Campus Cyber

Fort MeadeKhoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark as head of acquisitions at US CYBERCOM

LondonOmri Lavie and Isaac Zack's cyber firm Orchestra Group closing UK subsidiary

France
France's centrist and far-left parties advocate for foreign intel

In the context of a new military programming law currently being debated in French parliament, the DGSE has received unexpected backing from several opposition parties who are pressing for the budget allocated to the service's organisational needs to be increased.

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.

Spotlight | France
Long-awaited Falcon Archange enters test phase

A major French intelligence programme, dubbed 'Archange', aimed at strengthening France's intelligence gathering capabilities, is currently being tested. This project is aimed at improving their performances in the field, whose weaknesses have been highlighted by the war in Ukraine.

France
French intelligence services' spending surges before budget boost

The French government has earmarked more funding for intelligence over the next five years, but France's intelligence services, particularly the DGSE, have already exceeded their 2022 provisional budgets.

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

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Tel Aviv to Paris, to Kyiv.

IsraelShin Bet opposes National Guard plan

FranceDRM appoints civilian as "platform" chief

UkraineInformation protection service sets up new partnerships