, ULM/LAHNSTEIN, Germany: Within the framework of the TETRAPOL Bw procurement project, the first mobile digital radio system for out-of-area operations was handed over to the German Armed Forces on 4 December.
In the future, it will be available to Command Support Battalion 283.
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Mahler, First Director of the Federal Office for Information Management and Information Technology of the Bundeswehr (IT-AmtBw) symbolically presented the first radio device to the Colonel of the General Staff Schoepe, Head of Department, Command Support, in the Joint Support Command.
TETRAPOL Bw is a contribution to the transformation of the Bundeswehr and increases the command capabilities and security of soldiers when on missions. The procurement project includes the delivery of 30 mobile, fully autonomous digital radio systems for out-of-area operations by the end of 2007. These systems will enable the Bundeswehr to ensure mobile voice and data communication for forces in a secure and fail-safe network at all tactical communication levels. The procurement project is worth EUR 55 million.
The entire systems will be delivered by EADS Secure Networks; base stations
