Airbus wins 25year contract to build cyber gateways for Frances armed forces

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  • France's military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them.
  • The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract.
  • The gateways are meant to allow secure, filtered exchanges between networks and information systems with different levels of classification or sensitivity.
  • The company said the growing digitalization of military operations and the threats it entails have made filtering data flows a major priority for the armed forces.
  • The hardware will come in several versions: a rack-mounted unit for data centers, a self-contained unit for command posts, and variants for constrained tactical settings.
Frances military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints.

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