France
Race to take over Preligens, part one: French firm on verge of takeover following international struggles

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
Rapidev, Pakistan's low-profile specialist in intelligence data fusion makes Gulf inroads

The Pakistani company is gaining market share in the Gulf, notably Saudi Arabia, largely thanks to a deft technology transfer strategy. Its highly competitive software is challenging those developed by Western companies.

France, United States
French military intelligence continues to rely on US group ESRI despite aiming for big data sovereignty in 2025

Although the Artemis data processing platform is due to be fully deployed in 2025, the French military intelligence service is continuing to rely on US group ESRI to analyse its geospatial intelligence data.

The Tech Telegraph
CSO-3 set for December launch, Preligens in Kyiv, EEAS reboots classified information platform

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 CSO-3 on track for end of 2024 launch

Kyiv Preligens seeks Ukrainian partners to improve algorithms

Brussels EEAS reboots classified information management platform

France
France developing own recognition AI for navy special forces

Playing catch up in the field of automatic analysis of drone images, a discreet military centre is developing a tool for Commando Kieffer special forces drone pilots.

France, Poland
France trains Warsaw's geospatial intelligence experts

Poland is preparing for the arrival of its Airbus-designed spy satellites by having its analysts trained at France's Directorate of Military Intelligence.

France
Race to take over Preligens, part 2: Thales and Safran covet the military intelligence firm's gems

Those parties interested in taking over Preligens, a French geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) specialist, are trying to find out more about its capabilities and contracts, in order to adjust their takeover bids accordingly, perhaps even to lower them.

Poland
GEOINT start-up SATIM catches NATO's eye

NATO is sorely lacking in radar satellite imagery analysis capacities and is testing Polish start-up SATIM's data merger products as an option to help remedy the situation.

France
Artemis military intelligence programme gets 2024 budget boost

An official budget document reveals that the big data processing programme operated by Thales and Atos is to get a much increased budget allocation next year.

United States
Earth observation SPACs seek best political and financial strategy

Planet, Blacksky and Satellogic, which launched on the stock market through a SPAC, have situations and strategies that are very different, particularly in export markets.