France
Vinci and Airbus to build DGSE headquarters, Bouygues and Thales in pole position for DGSI

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
DGSE's missing bigwig, SIS's white male problem, Beijing's Moscow capital curbs

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

France Glaring no-show at Émié's DGSE leaving do

UK Despite the positive PR, SIS still overly white and male

China/Russia CCP checks Moscow money transfers

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
DGSE takes on economic sovereignty

The French external intelligence agency has opened a mission centre dedicated to economic interests. The new unit will aim to detect economic predation, support French business and help patch over certain failures, at the risk of doubling up on the work of other centres.

France
Construction conglomerates fight for pole position to build intel services' new HQs

France's internal and external intelligence agencies have begun drawing up plans for their future headquarters, to be located at either end of Paris. Both are now in the process of selecting constructors for these two major public contracts.

France
DGSI moves ahead with its intelligence city

France's internal intelligence service, the DGSI (Direction Générale de la [...]

France
DGSI's €450 million intelligence new HQ

Formally appointed in a ceremony that, unusually, was relayed by [...]