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The Intelligence Gazette
DGSE training camp revamp, Wagner hires for Africa, Xi's talk with Macron at G20, New military intelligence chief in Hanoi, Viginum awaits its hour against Baku

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

FranceDGSE to bring parachutist training centre up to scratch

RussiaWagner's Africa Corps is hiring

China/FranceXi and Macron to discuss Ukraine at G20 summit in Rio

VietnamPham Ngoc Hung closes 10-year chapter as military intelligence chief

FranceViginum awaits its hour against Baku

The Intelligence Gazette
NSC's new China expert, GIGN's China Club chats, DHS-FBI relations issues, Vietnamese military intel changes loom

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

United States NSC picks ex-FT Beijing researcher as director for China

France GIGN boss to dine with Chinese Business Club

United States DHS slammed for cooperating with FBI

Vietnam Military intelligence management heading for change

France
France's security directors club elects woman as vice-president

The CDSE renewed its governing bodies at its general meeting in Paris on 19 June, notably appointing France Télévisions' head of security Muriel Sobry as vice-president.

The Tech Times
Toka rebuilds in US, CPX joins forces with Obvious Technologies, Quindar attracts Space Force

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

WashingtonIsraeli firm Toka rebuilds US team

Abu DhabiCPX teams up with former elite force chief Thierry Orosco's cyber firm

Lafayette, ColoradoQuindar links to Space Force

The Intelligence Gazette
No new AUKUS members, DGSE renovations, Beijing watching IDF, GIGN and RAID on France-Canada flights

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

United KingdomOpposition to AUKUS expansion over intelligence technologies

FranceFurther refurbishment for DGSE before relocation

China/IsraelBeijing eyes on Baladia City training centre

FranceArmed GIGN and RAID officers board France-Canada flights after 15 years of talks

The Tech Times
Ex-Suneris's Caraes at ChapsVision, Nihon Cyber Defence hires Habeshaw, Operation Zero opens R&D

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

Paris ChapsVision poaches Suneris's presales director Caraes

Tokyo Nihon Cyber Defence enlists ex-Hakluyt expert Habeshaw

Saint Petersburg Russian vulnerabilities reseller Operation Zero opens R&D unit

France
Société Générale: security chief Antoine Creux's succession in limbo

A former commando frogman was shortlisted to succeed Antoine Creux as head of security at Société Générale, but not any more.

Spotlight | France, Saudi Arabia
Airbus keeps low profile in Saudi mission-critical communications bid

Now the leading French mission-critical communications provider, Airbus is seeking to earn a share of the Saudi defence ministry's mission-critical communications contract. But delays on France's RRF radio network of the future project have the firm treading very cautiously in Riyadh.

France, UAE
Obvious Technologies moves beyond Doha to Abu Dhabi

The French company founded by a former commander from the French gendarmerie's elite tactical force GIGN, Thierry Orosco, is reaching out to artificial intelligence firms SAFE, a Saudi parastatal, and Group 42, from the Emirates, with whom it already has ties.

Russia
From Moscow to Ukraine, demand for Rosgvardia continues to grow

The Russian paramilitary security service Rosgvardia is being stretched to its limits, as it is being deployed in the conquered areas of Ukraine and in its homeland, where the Ministry of the Interior needs it to ensure officials' safety.

France
France hired security firms to withdraw foreign citizens from Ukraine

Whether present or not in Ukraine before the conflict, several security companies were hired by French groups and diplomats to help evacuate expatriates as Russian troops entered the country.

France, Qatar
CS Group and Thales hope for windfall from Franco-Qatari anti-drone warfare cooperation

With the 2022 Football World Cup looming, French companies have set their sights on Qatar's major anti-drone contracts. The firms are backed in their efforts by France's army, national gendarmerie and interior ministry.

France
French commandos drop interminable parachute programme

The SMTCOPS programme entrusted to Safran in August 2016 is intented to provide French special forces paratroopers with new state-of-the-art parachute systems. But with it facing delays, some units have bypassed the defence procurement agency (DGA) and turned to other suppliers.