France
First geolocation contracts awarded for new SITENJ interceptions platform

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Babel Street for ASD, STL Ludwig on French ships, Michael Johns joins JSI, SITENJ's GPS beacons

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.

CanberraBabel Street goes deeper into Australian OSINT market

MarseilleSTL Ludwig, German supplier to the French Navy, in spotlight over litigation

WashingtonFormer Secret Service officer Michael Johns joins JSI Group

ParisFrance's agency for judiciary interception pursues integration of GPS trackers in the new national platform

France
The presidential election over, France's cyber sector goes into battle mode

Now that the vote is done and dusted, France's cyber industrialists are hoping that fresh progress will be able to be made on the country's big cyber projects, particularly the new generation national interceptions platform.

Europe, France
Italian cyber specialists pile into French market

Italian companies Area and RCS Lab are looking to expand in France and are hoping to benefit from the new SITENJ national interception platform.

France
DRM interested in Deveryware's telephony data analysis software

As it continues to iron out the details of its mass data analysis programme Artemis, France's military intelligence service has turned its attention to a telephony data analytics programme developed by Deveryware.

Belgium, France
France and Belgium head down different paths over CJEU data bulk collection ruling, paving the way for cooperation issues

French and Belgian administrative courts differ greatly in their interpretation of the CJEU's data bulk collection and storage ruling of 6 October 2020: the French Council of State allows flexibility for the security apparatus while Belgian's constitutional court has taken a "no quarter" approach.

European Union, France
Europol's antiterrorism projects annoy Paris

Earlier this month, the European Commission sent a delegation in an attempt to shift France's refusal to endorse its plans for Europol.

France
Defence innovation agency's Sauron project irks French mini-drone players

The French defence innovation agency's Sauron project, intended to help the ministry of armed forces catch up in the field of drones, is the perfect illustration of the nagging problem of how to finance these technologies.

France
Budget: DGSE allocated €1bn for new premises

French budgetary documents show the intelligence community will receive a financial boost in 2021. The DGSE, in particular, is down to get more than €1bn for its real estate projects.

France
Justice ministry seeks sovereign solution for interceptions

To avoid the problems that plagued the PNIJ, its first interceptions platform, France's justice ministry is preparing detailed specifications for a hand-picked selection of French tender candidates.

France
Justice ministry watches its back with new lawful interception project

After the flak it received over the shortcomings of its national interceptions platform, the PNIJ, the justice ministry is proceeding with caution on the modernisation of the system.

France
French government takes back control of communications interception platform from Thales

After having run into all sorts of problems since it struck up a major agreement with the electronics group in 2008, the French Ministry of Justice is to take judge-sanctioned communications interception back in-house in 2019 according to Intelligence Online's sources.