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

France, UAE
Interceptions company Trovicor mutates to become DataFusion.ai

Under its new name, the company, which has specialised until now in lawful interception under the ownership of French cyber veterans Stéphane Salies and Olivier Bohbot, is to market data fusion systems for intelligence purposes.

France
Interior ministry's first Cyber III awards favour ChapsVision

The French interior ministry has begun awarding the first contracts of the hotly-contested tender call of its Cyber III investment plan, and the contender leading the pack so far is Olivier Dellenbach's ChapsVision.

France
ChapsVision poised to win DGSI call for tender

France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, is about to announce the winners of the call for tender for its mass data analysis platform, OTDH.

France
The high stakes of DGSI big data programme delays

Repeated delays for the phase two selection process of the French internal security service's big data analytics platform are changing the top line-up as key deadlines draw near.

France
DGSI big data programme struggles to get into second gear

The start of the second phase of work on the big data analytics platform being set up by France's internal security service, the DGSI, has been delayed for a second time.

France
DGSI big data analysis programme behind schedule

The successful bids for carrying out the second phase of the DGSI's OTDH big data analysis platform have not yet been chosen. An announcement had been due at the end of June, but now the summer shutdown has begun.

The Tech Times
Artemis rolls out at DRM, RB 42 prospects at Campus Cyber, Khoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark at US Cybercom PEO, Orchestra closes London office

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

CreilArtemis roll-out speeds up

ParisRB 42 woos French companies for Singapore at Campus Cyber

Fort MeadeKhoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark as head of acquisitions at US CYBERCOM

LondonOmri Lavie and Isaac Zack's cyber firm Orchestra Group closing UK subsidiary

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
Altrnativ's all-in bid fails to win over DGSI

Former Qwant chief Eric Léandri's company Altrnativ was unsuccessful in its bid for the French internal intelligence agency DGSI's OTDH Big Data platform project, despite heavy investment, especially into the handling of SS7 protocols.

France
Chosen by DGSI, ChapsVision develops its sensors

The French big data analysis company is looking to get a foothold in the investigation of encrypted messaging as well as facial recognition.

France
Under Philippe Chose's lead, more staff set to switch from DGSE to DGSI

The increase in pay for DGSI cyber staff is luring the cream of the DGSE's technical department. Building the domestic intelligence service's interception capacities is the end goal.

Spotlight | France
OTDH provides test for French cyber-intelligence ecosystem

The DGSI's trials of the OTDH heterogenous data analysis platform will show if the French cyber marketplace has room for a newcomer unconnected to the traditional defence suppliers Thales, Dassault and Airbus.

France
Newcomer ChapsVision makes acquisition play for geolocation veteran Deveryware

ChapsVision is now in exclusive negotiations to take control of Deveryware, an acquisition that would further bolster a group angling for some of the French government's most sensitive technical intelligence contracts.