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The Tech Times
Look Up Space, Tokyo builds informational warfare centre, Arfan Chaudhry joins Saudi Space Agency

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of the technical intelligence providers.

Toulouse Look Up Space on recruitment drive

Tokyo Japan to get informational warfare centre

Riyadh Saudi space agency pursues international partners

France, UAE
Bruno Le Maire off to Abu Dhabi to get France's rail plans back on track

With Abu Dhabi looking to speed up the development of a rail network throughout the country, Paris is looking to use the opportunity to push its offer. This is despite the fact that Beijing, Berlin and Madrid have a head start on the project.

France, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan government speeds up industry prospection in France

After having closed borders for two years, Turkmenistan is getting back to business with France with the help of French advisers and politicians with connections to the country.

France, Japan
Dassault mired in Japanese surveillance plane conflict

Japan is preparing its rearmament and starting to prospect for materiel to defend itself from China but Dassault's chances of landing new contracts are not looking good.

Europe, Germany
Brussels brings in consultants to help it learn first lessons from war on Ukraine

The European Defence agency plans to use analysis from a panel of German and French advisory and corporate intelligence companies as the basis for its 2023 defence and capacity development programme.

Europe
ChapsVision and Cy4gate continue to consolidate Europe's cyber intelligence sector

By buying up smaller companies, ChapsVision and Cy4gate are each looking to build up a dominant position in the European cyber intelligence business.

Poland
Poland's military industry focuses on underwater protection

Poland's physical proximity to the war in Ukraine has prompted a drive to rearm quickly. The government has recently shifted the focus of its military procurement plans to underwater protection.

France, Saudi Arabia, Spain
Naval Group's fight for Saudi Arabian combat ship deal sunk by Spain's Navantia

Faced with the contract won by the Spanish Navantia to equip the Royal Saudi Navy, the French Naval Group has conceded defeat. Intelligence Online takes a look into the background of a competition that did not go well from the start.

France
ChapsVision wins first phase in building French intelligence service's future Big Data platform

The wait is over to find out more about the French General Directorate for Internal Security's Big Data platform project, aimed at replacing Palantir's Gotham Platform. Three firms have been retained so far.

Spotlight | Turkey
SiberAsist, Turkish intelligence's cyber tool shopper

Behind its shiny sales facade, the Turkish company SiberAsist, one of Cem Günal and Serap Günal's many businesses, has been quietly helping the Turkish intelligence services source cyber-intelligence and forensics technologies.

Japan
Paris takes interest in Japanese naval rearmament

After supplying undersea drones to Japan, French companies have their eye on other contracts with the Japanese Navy.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
McLarty and Ikea, UN investigator in Manchester, Avisa in crypto, SFO's Edwards, Houghton at Strategy&

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 Brussels, before heading to Manchester and then on to Paris and London.

Brussels Ikea to turn to McLarty over possible Belarusian prisoner links?

Manchester New investigation firm for the UK's North West

Paris Avisa Partners counts on fledgling RAID Square for crypto-investigations

London Former SFO Kellie Edwards goes solo

London Houghton advises Strategy&, drops Crossword

UAE
Bayanat boards Emirati geospatial data processing projects

The UAE Space Agency has contracted the geospatial data processing aspect of President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's 'Sirb' satellite constellation project to the part publicly-owned Bayanat, giving parent company Group 42 a place at the table.

France, Kazakhstan
French defence industry honchos hobnob with Kazakhstan's President Tokayev in Paris

French business leaders schmoozed with visiting Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and part-public industry chiefs at a dinner at the fancy Hotel d'Evreux on Paris's exclusive Place Vendome last week.

France
Ministry of the Interior places consulting firm Noveane at heart of 2024 Olympics financial plan

To allow money to start-ups that can help ensure safety at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the French Ministry of the Interior has used an original funding arrangement, which betrays the influence of the security industry's giants.

UAE
Geospatial intelligence experts get organised in UAE

Western New Space is making a big push into the UAE, attracted by the rise of geospatial intelligence in the region, despite uncertainty over how many of the growing number of sovereign projects will come to fruition.

Spotlight | France, India, Pakistan
French defence leaders keen to keep the ball rolling with India

With New Delhi's gaze still turned towards France after its acquisition of Dassault Rafales, Air Liquide, Safran, Naval Group, Thales and others are hoping for more business in India. The French Ministry of Armed Forces has all its attention focused on this window of opportunity.

France, Turkmenistan
Led by Vinci, Bouygues and Thales, French industrial groups prepare to return to Ashgabat in force

Guided by Vinci, Bouygues and Thales, French industrial groups are set to start prospecting for new business in Turkmenistan. Business diplomacy firm CIFAL is preparing to take a new delegation of industry leaders to Ashgabat.