The economic and technological war is now central in this new world. The report of the parliamentary delegation on intelligence (DPR) for 2025 is extremely clear on the Defense Industrial and Technological Base (BITD) in a context of highly unstable geopolitical instability. “The attacks on economic security are increasingly numerous and target in particular our industrial and technological defense base, engaged in military support to Ukraine,” explains this report published on Monday. The threat no longer targets only large companies but now largely concerns SMEs and ETIs, the report specifies.
The BITD is “a favored target for 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 reaffirmed the vital importance 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 had already been demonstrated by the Roux de Bézieux report submitted in September 2024 to the Élysée, on the economic security of French companies, but the threats are increasing. This report revealed that about a thousand economic interference alerts had been recorded in France in 2023, three times the amount since 2020.
The international context is now putting intelligence services to the test, increasingly solicited by numerous heterogeneous risks, involving state and non-state actors as well as physical and digital spaces, as recalled by the DPR, chaired by Deputy Jean-Michel Jacques. “Technological breakthroughs, information competition, and the growing porosity between military, economic, and societal issues are disrupting intelligence methods of anticipation,” observes the DPR.
