The economic and technological war is now central in this new world. The report of the parliamentary delegation on intelligence for 2025 is extremely clear for the Defense Industrial and Technological Base (DITB) in a context of highly shifting geopolitical instability. “The attacks on economic security are increasingly numerous and target in particular our defense industrial and technological base, engaged in military support to Ukraine,” explains the report published on Monday. The threat no longer targets only large companies but now largely affects SMEs and ETIs, the report specifies.
The DITB is “a privileged target of foreign powers. (…) Hostile actions have increased in frequency but also in diversity,” notes the DPR report. Published in July 2025, the French National Strategic Review had reaffirmed the vital issue of protecting French strategic autonomy in a context of global industrial competition against technologically increasingly advanced enemies and adversaries. The phenomenon is not new, as shown in the Roux de Bézieux report, submitted in September 2024 to the Elysée, on the economic security of French companies, but the threats are growing. This report revealed that about a thousand alerts of economic interference had been recorded in France in 2023, three times the volume since 2020.
The international context is now putting the intelligence services to the test, increasingly challenged by numerous heterogeneous risks from both state and non-state actors as well as physical and digital spaces, as highlighted by the DPR, chaired by Deputy Jean-Michel Jacques. “Technological disruptions, informational competition, and the growing porosity between military, economic, and societal issues are disrupting the intelligence services’ methods of anticipation,” observes the DPR.
