The college, institute and university are now working on a new, unique transition from research to practice. The name of this cooperation is both a program and a claim: Defence Technology Campus, or Def Tec Campus for short. The first step is to use a digital twin of the command and staff college. This digital twin of the top military training institution of the German Armed Forces is intended to enable experiments concerning the future-oriented performance of teaching tasks or AI support for decision-making processes, especially in the areas of wargaming and serious gaming.

Among other things, the FüAkBw contributes its concentrated collective intelligence of 150 lecturers and 450 course participants. The availability of the two-year General Staff / Admiral Staff Service National courses creates the basis for long-term labs and missions. This allows course participants to contribute to a mission as leaders, participants or test subjects. Rear Admiral Ralf Kuchler, Commander of the FüAkBw: “On the basis of today’s cooperation agreement, we are working together on a new type of ecosystem in the field of security and defence.”

Fraunhofer FKIE provides its proven expertise to defence research

As a non-university research institution, Fraunhofer FKIE provides its proven expertise within the NATO alliance to defence research. “Our most urgent task is to develop technologies and processes to identify, minimise and manage existential risks to the Federal Republic of Germany at an early stage,” explains Prof. Peter Martini, institute director of the FKIE. “Our goal is to make these technologies and processes available at the Def Tec Campus to military actors and decision-makers on the ground, in the air, in outer space, at sea, underwater or in cyberspace.”

“This cooperation is an important contribution to overall defence and to securing our free and democratic constitutional system,” explains Professor Klaus Beckmann, president of the HSU/UniBw H. Through its academic freedom and simultaneous orientation to the needs of the armed forces, the HSU/UniBw H significantly increases Germany’s strategic capability and provides key support to overall defence. In addition, the HSU / UniBw H contributes its comprehensive expertise in providing university education to the officer corps and to the leadership of other security agencies.