Direction générale de l'armement
The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) is the French government's defense procurement agency. It plays a crucial role in developing and managing military space capabilities, including Earth observation, communications, and space surveillance systems. The DGA collaborates with the Space Command (CDE), CNES, Thales Alenia Space, and Airbus Defence and Space on programs like MUSIS and IRIS to enhance France's space-based intelligence and military operations. Keywords associated with DGA include space defense, military satellites, space situational awareness, and strategic autonomy.
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SURVEY Copter signed a contract with the DGA to provide the French Navy with 11 systems comprising 22 electrically powered fixed-wing Aliaca maritime UAS aircraft.
Virgin Orbit is working with the U.S., British, Canadian, and French Air Forces to provide rapid satellite replacement capabilities.
Thales Alenia signed a contract with the French defense procurement agency DGA in 2021 for a concept study of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance applications using the Stratobus™.
The contract with the DGA covers several hundred ANAFI USA drones, the development of adaptations, and the maintenance of equipment and software over a 5-year period.
Parrot was chosen by the Direction Générale de l’Armement to supply its ANAFI USA micro-drones to equip the three corps of the French Army.
CNES awarded the CSO contract to Airbus at the end of 2010 while acting on behalf of the French Armament General Directorate (DGA).
CSO-2 was built by Airbus Space and Defence for the French military.
At least half of ArianeGroup’s transition batch of 14 Ariane 6 rockets are dedicated to European government customers, including six for the European Commission’s Galileo satellites and one for the French military’s Composante Spatiale Optique-3 imaging satellite.
Under the partnership, Airbus and Telespazio will sell any capacity on the Syracuse 4 satellites not being used by the French military and will use the resulting funds to partially offset the overall cost of the satellite system.
Arianespace scheduled a Soyuz mission in the weeks after 2018-12-04 to launch CSO-1, a French military reconnaissance satellite, as its final launch of the year.
The additional French military communications satellite is planned to be launched by 2030 if not sooner.