France
New DGSE premises budget swells by €185m

France
Completion of new DGSE headquarters recedes ever further into the future

The date for installation of France's external intelligence service, the DGSE, in its new headquarters in Vincennes on the eastern edge of Paris keeps being put back. Initially programmed for 2028, it is not now expected to take place until 2031, at the earliest.

France
Builder of DGSI's future HQ revealed

Following a lengthy and secretive process, France's domestic intelligence service has announced the winning consortium of the €1.3bn contract to construct its future headquarters and ensure the necessary security arrangements.

France
Oppida to secure information systems of French foreign intelligence agency's new HQ

Information systems consultancy Oppidia, whose founders formerly worked for the cybersecurity agency ANSSI, is part of the winning consortium for the construction of the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE's new headquarters near Paris.

The Intelligence Gazette
FCDO's Indo-Pacific head, Xi's European trip, extra DGSE renovations

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

UK Owen Jenkins takes charge of FCDO's Indo-Pacific office

France, Serbia, Hungary, China Xi booked for European spring trip

France DGSE on-site upgrades still needed before move to new HQ

France
French DRSD scours internet to protect small defence providers' reputation

The French defence security intelligence directorate has embarked on a mission to counter information-based interference in order to protect small and medium-sized defence companies from reputational attacks.

The Intelligence Gazette
China-Italy talks, Polish tank rearmament, DGSI's new HQ, Consensus on intel classification in Congress

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

ItalyGiorgia Meloni closes door on China talks

PolandPiotr Trytek in charge of tank rearmament programme

FranceFirst spade in the ground for DGSI HQs in 2024

United StatesConsensus on intelligence overclassification in Congress underway

France
Budget documents confirm French intelligence services' construction fever

Work is set to start on the DGSE's new HQ, as the DSRD prepares to move into its new home and Tracfin to open a second site. Documents used to prepare the government's 2024 budget also show that the intelligence services are being given greater priority.

France
DGSE relocation pushed back by two years

The future DGSE headquarters in Vincennes, scheduled for 2028, will now not be ready until 2030. Work has not even begun yet.