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France
French government paves way for spatial requisitions

In France, where space innovation is increasingly entrusted to industry and startups, the government has introduced legal changes that give it increased power to requisition space goods and services.

France
DGSE secures its public-private partnerships

The French foreign intelligence service wants to better address the intellectual property issues of the technologies it creates internally, in particular in its secret incubator.

France
France's Share My Space promotes tools for safe space navigation

The increasing number of space objects above Europe's skies is becoming as much a safety issue as a logistical hurdle that Share My Space would like to address. The French start-up is bidding on a space surveillance tender financed by the government.

Spotlight | France
Blast off for Finance Ministry's space industry strategy relaunch

Aware that its space industry is lagging behind and that its position as leader in the sector has been weakened, France is mandating seven emerging companies to redefine its strategy. This comes at a time where mistrust surrounds the sector's traditional key players.

France, UAE
Manar Military Consultancy opens up Emirati market for French naval defence industry

The advisory firm founded by former French special forces operator Freddy Riaud is trying to win a contract with the UAE's Tawazun to conduct a preliminary study for the future construction of an ammunition recycling plant.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Risk&Co, Inter-Mediate, Thales

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to Paris and London.

ParisLe Floch's arrival helps Risk & Co further accentuate its shift towards cyber.

LondonThales adviser Lord Nick Houghton questions AUKUS in the House of Lords.

LondonGilles de Kerchove begins his reconversion at Inter-Mediate.

France
French cyber partners Roussely and Taleb continue to grow their empire

French cyber veterans Bernard Roussely and Alexandre Taleb are quietly building themselves a small empire in France, Lebanon and Switzerland via the firms Euler Technology Solutions and Beware Cyberlabs.

France
French prisons to get anti-drone systems

The French justice ministry has chosen French companies Cerbair, KEAS and Nuances Technologies to install anti-drone systems at French prisons. Its choice of companies is not particularly surprising but will have a structuring effect on the French anti-drone market as it waits for the much bigger contract for the defence ministry's Parade programme to be awarded.

Spotlight | Europe, Israel, United States
How OSINT has worked its way among cyber-intelligence experts

Open-source intelligence (OSINT), considered less touchy than cyber-attacking, is less regulated and easier for goverments to showcase. However, the one-upmanship in the sector is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between passive and active intelligence.

France
Viginum and DGSI consider partnering with defence-backed startups to fight fake news

With four months to go before the French presidential elections, Sahar and Storyzy, two start-ups backed in their early days by the French armed forces ministry, are leading the field for contracts to equip the DGSI and Viginum - the second on the advice of the first - with cyber systems to fight fake news.

France
Parliament is latest body to fret about AID defence innovation agency

A National Assembly budgetary report has cast a critical eye on the agency, which is supposed to lead the efforts of the entire sector. It says it is sluggish and subordinate, and does not cast its nets widely enough.

France
France's Artemis project faced with tsunami of data and technical challenges

The Artemis defence intelligence data platform, a pet project of France's defence minister Florence Parly and which is to be used mostly by military intelligence agency DRM, is grappling with some major technical issues.

France, Qatar
CS Group and Thales hope for windfall from Franco-Qatari anti-drone warfare cooperation

With the 2022 Football World Cup looming, French companies have set their sights on Qatar's major anti-drone contracts. The firms are backed in their efforts by France's army, national gendarmerie and interior ministry.

France
France's SGDSN budget finances new anti-fake news technology for Viginum

France's new anti-fake news service Viginum has been allocated €4m to procure technology and hire 25 additional staff in signs which suggest the service is poised to work more closely with the French intelligence community.

France
Mentor Consultant serves as light cavalry for Orange's military cloud

Founded in September with the blessing of the Agence du Numérique de Défense (AND), industry association Ginum is looking to promote French 'digital sovereignty' and influence the government's strategy. Its launch represents a new chapter in the influence wars surrounding France's sovereign cloud.

France
Tehtris opens doors to fellow French cybersecurity operators

After having long kept its distance from the rest of France's cybersecurity community, Tehtris has decided to open up by creating Ecosystem, a partnership programme aimed mainly at companies working closely with French public bodies.

France, United States
French defence minister Florence Parly and DGA sued in US over French economic security decisions

The French defence industry was so keen to unshackle itself from US military sales regulations that the French defence ministry broke business law, Switzerland's Aldini bank claims, in a fresh bid to obtain justice in the US.