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French Armament General Directorate (DGA)

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The French defence procurement agency (DGA) awarded Thales and Airbus a contract for a new joint tactical signals intelligence (SIGINT) system to upgrade French forces’ signals monitoring, direction finding, and spectrum analysis capabilities.

Mentioned as: DGATechnical ProductFeb 12, 2021Airbus selected by French DGA to upgrade France’s joint electronic warfare and armed forces

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™.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Org RelationshipFeb 2, 2021SATCOM’s Ballooning Competition Continues Aloft…

The ANAFI USA meets stringent DGA cybersecurity standards, including a digital signature to protect against software modification.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2021Parrot to supply micro-drones with ANAFI USA for French Defense Procurement Agency

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.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2021Parrot to supply micro-drones with ANAFI USA for French Defense Procurement Agency

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.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2021Parrot to supply micro-drones with ANAFI USA for French Defense Procurement Agency

The CSO constellation will provide extremely high-resolution geoinformation intelligence to the French Armed Forces and to partner nations under the MUSIS cooperation program.

Mentioned as: French Armed ForcesTechnical ProductJan 4, 2021Airbus-built CSO-2 French military Earth Observation satellite launched successfully

Airbus built Earth observation satellites for the French Armed Forces that were launched on a Soyuz launcher from the Kourou European Spaceport in French Guiana.

Mentioned as: French Armed ForcesTechnical ProductJan 4, 2021Airbus-built CSO-2 French military Earth Observation satellite launched successfully

CNES awarded the CSO contract to Airbus at the end of 2010 while acting on behalf of the French Armament General Directorate (DGA).

Mentioned as: dgaOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2021Airbus-built CSO-2 French military Earth Observation satellite launched successfully

CSO-2 was built by Airbus Space and Defence for the French military.

Mentioned as: French militaryTechnical ProductDec 29, 2020Soyuz launches French reconnaissance satellite in final 2020 launch

Hemeria is building two small satellites for the French Armed Forces Ministry to launch to geostationary orbit in 2023 to monitor the space environment.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Org RelationshipSep 24, 2020Hemeria seeks niche in microsat manufacturing

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.

Mentioned as: French militaryTechnical ProductJan 23, 2020EU reserves four Ariane 6 rockets for Galileo navigation satellites

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.

Mentioned as: French militaryTechnical ProductSep 10, 2019Airbus and Telespazio to sell excess capacity on Syracuse 4 satellites

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.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Org RelationshipDec 4, 2018Arianespace launches two Asian satellites on Ariane 5 rocket

DGA awarded the Syracuse 4 contracts in December 2015.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Org RelationshipNov 6, 2018France to add third Syracuse 4 satellite to future milsatcom fleet

The additional French military communications satellite is planned to be launched by 2030 if not sooner.

Mentioned as: French Armament General Directorate (DGA)Narrative GeneralNov 6, 2018France to add third Syracuse 4 satellite to future milsatcom fleet

The French Ministry of Defence will add a third satellite to its next-generation geostationary constellation.

Mentioned as: French Ministry of DefenceTechnical ProductNov 6, 2018France to add third Syracuse 4 satellite to future milsatcom fleet
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