France, India
Paris and Delhi join underwater acoustic intelligence forces

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Intellexa targeted by US sanctions, French interior ministry contracts, Franco-Brazilian military communications cooperation, Chris Jones joins Nightwing

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.

LimassolJenovice, indirect victim of US ire over Intellexa

ParisMinistry of Interior puts out call for tenders for telephone data contract

ParisSyracuse-Siscomis agreement with Brazil being updated

WashingtonFormer CIA officer Chris Jones to head Nightwing's technology division

France, India
France and India's blooming military space cooperation

A delegation from the Indian Defence Space Agency, led by its director Pawan Kumar, travelled to Paris recently to meet with one of its closest partners. The aim of the trip was to negotiate a partnership on space surveillance between both countries.

France
French army seeks to lure civilian OSINT experts

Various defence ministry departments are pulling out all the stops to recruit the brightest open-source intelligence specialists.

United States
Boeing eyes New Delhi's new spy planes for its latest technical intelligence pod

The US planemaker Boeing is currently testing a new intelligence tool for its P-8 Poseidon aircraft, which it appears willing to offer to India as the country seeks to acquire its own state-of-the-art surveillance aircraft.

France, Indonesia
Naval Group makes headway in Jakarta on submarine contract

According to sources in both Paris and Jakarta, French shipping company Naval Group is about to sign an agreement with Indonesian firm PT PAL.

France
Naval Group boosts AI teams in quest for artificial 'golden ears'

The French shipbuilder wants AI experts who can use geospatial and acoustic intelligence to help develop its first big underwater drone. They are hoping to get help from the "golden ears" trained to help submarines recognise enemy vessel sound signatures.

China, India
New Delhi joins deep sea war

India is mobilising a specialised research centre to develop AI algorithms for naval intelligence to counter Beijing's ambitions and underwater intelligence operations in its waters.

Spotlight | Russia, United States
US and Russia's ghost fleets face off in deep waters

Two secret units, one run by the US and the other by Russia, are engaged in atypical hybrid warfare deep beneath the surface of the ocean.

Russia
Acoustic warfare in the Barents Sea

Russia is deploying an underwater acoustic listening network in the Barents Sea to thwart NATO's intelligence-gathering operations in the strategically important waters.

Spotlight | France, India, Pakistan
French defence leaders keen to keep the ball rolling with India

With New Delhi's gaze still turned towards France after its acquisition of Dassault Rafales, Air Liquide, Safran, Naval Group, Thales and others are hoping for more business in India. The French Ministry of Armed Forces has all its attention focused on this window of opportunity.