Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces
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A 25-year PARACOM contract for cross-domain cyber gateways shows defense ministries are locking in long-horizon vendors for classified network plumbing. If you sell into defense, the real control points are shifting to secure interconnects and policy-enforcing gateways, not just endpoint tools.
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