GIGN

The Intelligence Gazette
No new AUKUS members, DGSE renovations, Beijing watching IDF, GIGN and RAID on France-Canada flights

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United KingdomOpposition to AUKUS expansion over intelligence technologies

FranceFurther refurbishment for DGSE before relocation

China/IsraelBeijing eyes on Baladia City training centre

FranceArmed GIGN and RAID officers board France-Canada flights after 15 years of talks

The Tech Times
Ex-Suneris's Caraes at ChapsVision, Nihon Cyber Defence hires Habeshaw, Operation Zero opens R&D

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

Paris ChapsVision poaches Suneris's presales director Caraes

Tokyo Nihon Cyber Defence enlists ex-Hakluyt expert Habeshaw

Saint Petersburg Russian vulnerabilities reseller Operation Zero opens R&D unit

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.

Spotlight | France, Saudi Arabia
Airbus keeps low profile in Saudi mission-critical communications bid

Now the leading French mission-critical communications provider, Airbus is seeking to earn a share of the Saudi defence ministry's mission-critical communications contract. But delays on France's RRF radio network of the future project have the firm treading very cautiously in Riyadh.

France, UAE
Obvious Technologies moves beyond Doha to Abu Dhabi

The French company founded by a former commander from the French gendarmerie's elite tactical force GIGN, Thierry Orosco, is reaching out to artificial intelligence firms SAFE, a Saudi parastatal, and Group 42, from the Emirates, with whom it already has ties.

Russia
From Moscow to Ukraine, demand for Rosgvardia continues to grow

The Russian paramilitary security service Rosgvardia is being stretched to its limits, as it is being deployed in the conquered areas of Ukraine and in its homeland, where the Ministry of the Interior needs it to ensure officials' safety.

France
France hired security firms to withdraw foreign citizens from Ukraine

Whether present or not in Ukraine before the conflict, several security companies were hired by French groups and diplomats to help evacuate expatriates as Russian troops entered the country.

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
French commandos drop interminable parachute programme

The SMTCOPS programme entrusted to Safran in August 2016 is intented to provide French special forces paratroopers with new state-of-the-art parachute systems. But with it facing delays, some units have bypassed the defence procurement agency (DGA) and turned to other suppliers.

France
Special forces provider interest group adds intelligence string to its bow

As he extends the scope of his services to special forces, Benoît de Saint Sernin, founder of French federation of special forces equipment suppliers Cercle de l'Arbalète, wants to grow its business with French intelligence agencies.

France, Iraq
ADP considers its security options in Mosul

After signing a deal to reconstruct Mosul Airport with Iraq's civil aviation authority on 25 January, France's Aéroports de Paris [...]

France
Musical chairs at Centigon, buffeted by competition

After the departure of Bruno Tanqueray from the armoured vehicle [...]

Africa, France
Abidjan becoming France's West Africa intelligence hub

As well as forging ahead with the new Abidjan-based International Counter-Terrorism Academy (French acronym AILCT) to improve international coordination on [...]

France
Maryl Solutions opens doors to Latin American defence

Backed financially by missile maker MBDA, the anti-drone company Cerbair has recently won a contract to deliver its anti-drone system [...]

France
Paris in a drone-shopping frenzy

The French authorities' procurement forecasts see the state buying more than a thousand drones of all sizes over the next decade, much to the delight of industrials.

France
Former GIGN chief Thierry Orosco gets into business in Algiers and Astana

Thierry Orosco, who commanded France's GIGN elite intervention unit from 2011 to 2014, has attended a series of business forums [...]