Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub
Accelerating Innovation to our Soldiers
The Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub (CIH) is an interface between the start-up scene and the Bundeswehr. Its mission is to drive digital innovation in the Bundeswehr. The CIH identifies innovative technologies in the international start-up scene and develops and validates them for the Bundeswehr. Its focus is on disruptive technologies in the area of cyber / information technology and on digital products and services.
Bringing Innovation to our Soldiers
The Cyber Innovation Hub works between the opposites of start-up culture and Bundeswehr tradition and is meant to introduce the start-up mind-set and methods as a capability in the Bundeswehr. The goal is also to deliberately try out new approaches. The team comprises military personnel, civilians and serial entrepreneurs who are looking to contribute to successful digital transformation in the Armed Forces. The Cyber Innovation Hub is also meant as a platform to reach out to innovators and talents in the digital sector and involve them as reservists.
The Cyber Innovation Hub is a strategic project under the purview of State Secretary Dr Katrin Suder. The steering board is chaired by the State Secretary and includes the head of the new Directorate-General for Cyber/Information Technology (CIT) at the Federal Ministry of Defence (FMoD), the Military Vice-President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) and the CEO of BWI GmbH.
