News from the BWB
Topical information about the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement and its agencies can be found here.
On 13 July 2010 the Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, visited the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) in Koblenz in the course of his summer tour.
On 9th July 2010 the Vice President of BWB, Reinhard Schütte, and the CEOs of Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles, Klaus Sander and Peter Georgi, signed the contract on the integration of enhanced protection measures into 65 armoured vehicles Transportpanzer 1 FUCHS A8.
Under the project ”Modernization of Medium-Range Aircraft of the Special Air Mission Wing of the Federal Ministry of Defense (FMOD)“, the first Airbus A319CJ aircraft was delivered by Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) to the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) on 17 February 2010.
Under the project “Modernization of Medium-Range Aircraft of Special Air Mission Wing, Federal Ministry of Defense (FMOD)”, the first Airbus A319CJ type aircraft was delivered by Airbus Deutschland GmbH to the main contractor Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) in Hamburg-Finkenwerder on 13 May 2009.
On 1 February 2009 the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons (WTD 71) and the Bundeswehr Institute for Underwater Sound and Geophysical Research (FWG) were merged as the “new” WTD 71. WTD 71 is now called “Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research”.
