The Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung (BWB), Germany's Federal Agency for Defense Technology and Procurement, has awarded a consortium led by Rheinmetall a project engineering contract to build the prototype of a fully networked camp protection system. The consortium, whose other members are Thales Defence Deutschland and Diehl BGT Defence, plans to demonstrate the prototype at the Bundeswehr's testing ground in Meppen next year.
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The system will network short- and long-range reconnaissance sensors with command, control, communications, computers and intelligence and effectors including air defense systems. The system will consist of legacy components and new sub-systems and will have a built-in semiautomatic alarm function capable of activating defensive measures at any time.
Following the project engineering phase, the BWB intends to issue a request for proposal for protection systems, which the Bundeswehr plans to deploy to protect its camps in Afghanistan.
