France Seeks to Protect National Interests With Bid for Atos Cybersec

France is seeking to acquire Atos’s advanced computing, mission-critical systems, and cybersecurity units for about $750M to keep sensitive defense and critical infrastructure technologies—spanning nuclear simulation supercomputers and Olympic cybersecurity—under national control, following Airbus’s withdrawn higher bid. The move aligns with broader European practices of state stakes in critical tech and contrasts with U.S. reliance on CFIUS oversight, potentially strengthening France’s domestic cyber and high-performance computing capabilities and signaling increased public-sector involvement in key cybersecurity providers.