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The DRM (Direction du Renseignement Militaire) has a role similar to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), providing intelligence to the French armed forces. It reports to the chiefs of staff.

FRANCE Corporate Intelligence 12/09/2018

Big data specialist Ramond goes solo 

After three years at Sopra Steria and Atos, the former [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 05/09/2018

IGN woos intelligence services to carve niche in GEOINT 

A report recently submitted to the French government on the sovereignty of geographical data stresses the role that the French geographical institute IGN can play in helping the French intelligence services, as it aims to become their leading GEOINT partner. [...]

FRANCE RUSSIA Government Intelligence 29/08/2018

Foreign ministry, DGSE and ANSSI partly iron out disagreements with Russia 

Diplomats and intelligence services have negotiated throughout the summer to try to resolve security differences that have dragged on between France and Russia. [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 25/07/2018

DRM and Intelligence Campus sitting on bomb site 

The French ministry of the armed forces recently located 33 [...]

FRANCE Corporate Intelligence 11/07/2018

ADIT leads race to acquire GEOS 

According to our sources, ADIT, the corporate intelligence firm headed by Philippe Caduc, has entered exclusive negotiations with the private [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 20/06/2018

Gendarmerie scrambles to retain internal intelligence role 

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FRANCE Government Intelligence 13/06/2018

Finance and defence ministries revisit Villani report on AI 

Despite the publication in March of the much publicised Villani report on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the ministry of the economy, [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 06/06/2018

Sovereignty over digital tools divides intelligence chiefs 

A report on digital technology in the armed forces has been published against the backdrop of a heated debated inside the military and the intelligence services about the sovereignty of equipment in their use. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE Corporate Intelligence 30/05/2018

Struggling private security sector faces further concentration 

Confronted with their traditional clients' harsh budget cuts and in the absence of solid alternative revenue streams, a number of French private security firms look set to merge or fold. [...]

SWITZERLAND Government Intelligence 11/04/2018

Paris favours Gaudin to head Swiss intelligence 

The Swiss confederation's intelligence service, or SRC (Service de Renseignement de la Confederation), is due to appoint its new chief [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 28/03/2018

Special forces procurement to be classified 

French MPs of President Emmanuel Macron's La Republique en Marche [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 28/03/2018

Rival commando series in development 

Following on from the success of "Bureau des Legendes", the [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 14/03/2018

French commandos played key role in Ouagadougou 

The terror attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso and the headquarters of the national army earlier this month saw rapid deployment of the French special forces. [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 14/03/2018

Parly takes shot at Intelligence Campus 

According to our sources, the general inspectorate of the French [...]

FRANCE International Dealmaking 28/02/2018

Storm clouds gather over French ISR 

New French intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft are a key component of the next military appropriations bill. But building them is proving to be fraught with problems. [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 28/02/2018

Creil, DRM's training base 

According to our sources, under the terms of a bigger [...]

FRANCE Government Intelligence 14/02/2018

Special treatment for special forces upsets other military branches 

France's military appropriations bill, presented to the council of ministers on February 8, does nothing to resolve the tensions over means the special forces receive compared with the rest of the French armed forces. [...]

FRANCE International Dealmaking 31/01/2018

Defence ministry's air transport woes affect French intelligence world 

The definitive report on the use of private aircraft companies by the military looks unlikely to resolve the issues affecting French ISR. [...]

EGYPT Government Intelligence 31/01/2018

How Abbas Kamel became Mukhabarat's new chief 

Intelligence Online has investigated the sudden sacking in January of the once-powerful Khaled Fawzi as head of the Egyptian intelligence service Mukhabarat. [...]

UNITED STATES FRANCE Government Intelligence 17/01/2018

US officials receive French gifts 

The security honeymoon period between Paris and Washington shows up [...]