Defence`s Feeds

In the run-up to the US presidential election on 5 November, the new head of the NSA and US Cyber

The case of Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast, which hours after it listed on the Nasdaq in August 2023 become

Corporate intelligence firm Forward Global (formerly Avisa Partners) spoke on behalf of Glencore with the French president's office and various

Salman bin Nasser Abu-Habib Al Shathry is steadily making himself indispensable to anyone wanting to sign defence contracts in Riyadh.

Vapor purge testing provides critical information on how long it takes an aircraft operating in areas at risk of chemical attacks to purge hazardous chemical vapor and replace it with toxicologically safe, breathable air. The [...]

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Under Peace Caesar program, the Italian Air Force operated a fleet of F-16A Block 15 ADF (Air Defense Fighter) jets upgraded with the “Falcon Up” and “Falcon 2020” modifications. Here’s their story. On Jan. 20, [...]

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A total of 26 MH-139 helicopters are now on order, although it’s not known if the service will complete the 74-helicopter fleet or stop at 36 helicopters as mentioned in the FY25 budget documents. The [...]

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Nathalie Guichard joins the European Defence Agency (EDA) as Research, Technology and Innovation (RTI) Director. Ms Guichard is a Brigadier General and was previously the managing director of L’Atelier Industriel de l’Aéronautique de Clermont-Ferrand (AIA CF), a French state-owned military aircraft maintenance facility . 

“I am delighted and honoured to be joining the European Defence Agency at this critical time. Innovation is indispensable for our armed forces, and it is at the European level that we can coordinate our efforts with the civilian sector to give us the technological superiority we need,” Ms Guichard said upon taking up her duties. 

Ms Guichard is a military engineer who graduated from France's L'École polytechnique and the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-Supaéro). She also holds a master’s degree in public management. 

With her engineering background, Ms Guichard brings a wealth of experience to EDA. She started her career in 1990 as a project manager for flying test bench modification. Two years later, she became head of the equipment maintenance department. After transferring to the aeronautical programs office of Délégation générale pour l’armement (DGA), France’s procurement agency, in 1998, Ms Guichard then became the Rafale manufacturing and support manager at the French Ministry of Defence.  

In 2001, Ms Guichard left the ministry and became the information technology adviser of Auvergne regional prefect, to develop mobile phone and wide bandwidth networks, among other projects. She also liaised with the European Regional Development Fund. She joined Clermont Ferrand community of cities to develop start-ups as well as technology transfer from university research centres to local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In 2016, she returned to the military sphere, first as deputy managing director and then chief operating officer of AIA CF, before becoming managing director in 2020. 

As Research, Technology and Innovation Director, Ms Guichard leads EDA’s directorate that fosters and supports defence research in the European Union. Most notably, her directorate runs the Hub for EU Defence Innovation, known as HEDI, which stimulates and facilitates cooperation on defence innovation among Member States while also working with the European Commission and ensuring coherence with NATO innovation initiatives. HEDI’s activities contribute to EU priorities for capability development and defence research, as well as on skills, technologies, and manufacturing capabilities.

Talking about it is forbidden in Hong Kong but, over the last four months, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cells have been set up in all the universities in the "special administrative region". According to Intelligence Online's information, however, these cells

The Ukrainian armed forces, and notably the military intelligence service, the GUR, has partnered with local drone partner Terminal Autonomy,

Kissimmee - Geo-ChatGPT debated in FloridaThe rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) modelled on ChatGPT in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) will

As Kyiv continues as best it can to develop its electronic warfare technology (IO, 19/04/24), incubators working in this field,

The French audit office, the Cour des Comptes, has criticised in a recent report the tendency of judicical investigators to

Boutique investigations firm Telescope Research has hired EY's (formerly Ernst & Young) ex-Canada Intelligence Practitioner Daniel Maki to work on

Aviation spotter and photographer Michał Rokita reached a yet undisclosed spotting point near Tonopah Test Range from where he shot the local-based F-117s and also a mysterious aircraft. Last year we published an article with [...]

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We get a closer look a the Northrop Grumman Manta Ray UUV prototype during in-water testing off the coast of Southern California. As we have already reported here, on April 8, 2024, Northrop Grumman Corporation [...]

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Corporate intelligence firms Due Diligence Consulting and Mintz Group have been roped into a dispute between a notorious short-seller and a skin graft maker accused of invasion of privacy. The two firms received subpoenas from Marc Cohodes, who exposed accounting fraud

Poland's military intelligence service, the Sluzba Wywiadu Wojskowego (SWW), is currently using the services of US company Antenna Products to

The International Relations and Defence Committee of the British House of Lords, which has been organising a series hearings into

James Wharton, Lord Wharton of Yarm, who ran Boris Johnson's Conservative party leadership campaign, became a director and co-shareholder of