Joël Barre

France, United States
Paris orders kamikaze drones from Washington

The DGA, France's military procurement agency, is poised to order 82 Switchblade loitering munitions from the US company AeroVironment.

The Agencies' Gazette
Abdullah II in Washington, GCHQ, US shipments to Kyiv, Uzbek border guards, Poupard and DGA

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Amman to London via Washington, Paris, Tashkent and Kyiv.

Jordan/United States Abdullah II puts intelligence at centre of US visit agenda

United KingdomGCHQ's mystery Manchester accelerator

Ukraine/United StatesWashington determined to fill Ukraine's military gaps

UzbekistanBorder guards on alert

FranceCybersecurity chief eyes defence procurement role

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
Behind the scenes of Soria, Atos and Thales' stillborn military intelligence programme

The Joint Intelligence Optimization System (Soria) was intended to facilitate military intelligence sharing and analysis, including in the field. But the project entrusted to Atos and Thales has been quietly shelved.

France
New order in internal intelligence and police cyber services

According to our sources, Frederic Valette, a graduate of France's elite Polytechnique graduate school, is poised to replace Patrick Guyonneau [...]

France
AID agency makes pratfall

The Agence de l'Innovation de la Defense (AID) inadvertently divulged [...]

Spotlight | West Europe
HELIOS TO DOVETAIL EUROPE'S INTELLIGENCE EFFORT

When the Ariane rocket lifts the Helios 1 military satellite into orbit in June or July the three countries taking part in the program -- France, Italy and Spain --will have made a major step towards coordinating their intelligence-gathering.