BWI GmbH

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BWI GmbH

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legal form Limited Liability Company (GmbH)
founding Late 2006
Seat Meckenheim , Germany
management Martin Kaloudis ( CEO )
Number of employees over 5,000
sales 1 billion euros
Branch Information technology
Website www.bwi.de

Company headquarters in Meckenheim-Merl

The BWI GmbH is a 100 percent state-owned company. As IT - Systemhaus the Bundeswehr as well as IT service provider of the Federal develops and operates information and communication technology to their customers, especially the armed forces. The GmbH with currently more than 5,000 employees at more than 40 locations nationwide is headed by the managing directors Martin Kaloudis (chairman), Katrin Hahn and Frank Leidenberger .

The company's headquarters are in the Merl district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Meckenheim near Bonn . The building was erected on the former site of the DRK Federal School.

history

BWI GmbH emerged on August 1st, 2017 from the merger of BWI Informationstechnik GmbH and BWI Systeme GmbH . The two predecessor companies were founded in 2006 by the Bundeswehr, IBM and Siemens . Together with BWI Services GmbH, they formed the BWI service network for the implementation of HERKULES , the largest public-private partnership in Europe. With the signing of the contract in December 2006, the service group received the order to modernize and manage the Bundeswehr IT. HERCULES ended on December 27, 2016.

On December 28, 2016, the Bundeswehr and BWI signed a contract for IT services for the Bundeswehr in Meckenheim. The BWI develops and operates the IT infrastructure of the Bundeswehr on the basis of an open-ended service contract and also makes its services available to other federal departments.

Tasks and achievements

Tasks of the BWI service network until 2016

From 2007, BWI created a uniform IT landscape for the logistical and administrative processes within the Bundeswehr. This included setting up and managing a modern IT infrastructure and modernizing the data centers. At the same time, the SAP solution SASPF was integrated . The service group undertook the rollout for 50,000 users and the operation of the solution. In addition, there was user training and the training of service personnel to ensure continuous operation.

BWI services since 2017

BWI looks after around 1,200 Bundeswehr properties in Germany and is also represented nationwide with its own operating locations. BWI operates five data centers in Strausberg , Wilhelmshaven , Bonn , Cologne and Biere near Magdeburg , three technician locations in Bogen , Dresden and Germersheim , 25 service centers (SC) throughout Germany, ten locations of the information service and mediation service (A&V service), four User Help Desks (UHD) in Berlin , Hanover , Meckenheim and Munich and three operational competence centers (BKZ) in Bonn, Munich and Rheinbach . The new “data center network” will be built at the Strausberg ( Barnim barracks ), Wildflecken ( Rhön barracks ) and Roth ( Otto Lilienthal barracks ) locations .

With the service contract signed on December 28, 2016, the BWI continues to be charged with the operation and further development of the information and communication technology of the Bundeswehr. In addition to the complete operation of the more than 180,000 IT workstations of the Bundeswehr, the services include complete software management , operation of telecommunications, data centers, data networks and central processes such as e-mail, internet and intranet of the Bundeswehr, as well as support the Bundeswehr user. In addition, the BWI is responsible for the IT security of the IT infrastructure it operates, operates SAP for the Bundeswehr and supports the development and introduction of new SAP processes.

In addition, one of the tasks of the BWI is to further develop the IT infrastructure of the Bundeswehr, for example by implementing a Bundeswehr cloud . Another digitization project of the BWI is the digitization of the health care of the Bundeswehr. Here the BWI, together with the Bundeswehr, creates the basis for the introduction of a digital health and patient record . In the field of military IT, the BWI supports the Bundeswehr with the development and operation of IT services for the digitization of land-based operations (D-LBO), for example for a battle management system.

Another field of activity of the BWI is the further development of the Bundeswehr's IT system. For this purpose, the BWI operates its own innovation management. This is responsible for transferring ideas and concepts into implementation projects that find their way into the BWI portfolio. In addition, the Cyber ​​Innovation Hub of the Bundeswehr (CIHBw), which previously successfully completed a three-year pilot phase, has been established as a department of the BWI since January 1, 2020 . It acts as an interface between the start-up scene and the armed forces and has the task of promoting digital innovations for the armed forces. The CIHBw identifies innovative technologies in the international start-up scene and develops and validates them for the Bundeswehr.

Awards

  • In 2018, the BWI received the eGovernment Award in platinum as the winner in the "IT service providers and data centers" category. In 2019 she was awarded the eGovernment Award in gold in the same category.
  • In 2019 and 2020, BWI was selected among the top 100 most innovative medium- sized companies in Germany for its innovation management under the mentorship of Ranga Yogeshwar .
  • BWI's company pension scheme was awarded the German company pension scheme in 2020.

Shareholders

Since December 28, 2016, BWI has been a 100 percent company of the Federal Republic of Germany and thus an in-house company of the federal government. From December 28, 2006 to December 27, 2016, the following shareholders were involved in the predecessor company BWI Informationstechnik GmbH: Siemens AG with 50.05%, the Federal Republic of Germany with 49.9% and IBM Germany with 0.05%.

Former managing director

  • December 28, 2006 to November 20, 2008: Christa Heinz , previously at IBM Germany
  • December 28, 2006 to June 30, 2010: Klaus Hahnenfeld , previously head of the founding staff of the IT company from 2002 to 2006
  • December 28, 2006 to December 31, 2010: Richard Kollmuß , previously Commercial Director at Siemens Business Services (SBS)
  • July 1, 2010 to April 30, 2016: Georg Wilmers , previously Head of Personnel, Social and Central Affairs (PSZ) in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg)
  • December 28, 2006 to December 27, 2016: Peter Blaschke , Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, previously Head of Global Public Sector of Siemens Business Services (SBS)
  • November 20, 2008 to December 27, 2016: Ewald Glaß , previously Sales Manager Defense and Head of the IBM Bonn branch
  • January 1, 2011 to December 27, 2016: Lutz Kilian , previously Commercial Director of Account and Program Management at BWI Informationstechnik GmbH
  • December 28, 2016 to March 30, 2019: Katharina Hollender , previously Head of Finance F-Services and Head of Finance, Transformation and Performance Controlling for the Finance Shared Service at Deutsche Telekom AG
  • December 28, 2016 to March 26, 2019: Dr. Jürgen Bischoff , previously Head of Personnel Management at BWI Informationstechnik GmbH
  • January 1, 2017 to June 28, 2018: Ulrich Meister , then from September 2019 to March 2020 Head of Information Technology for Private Customers in Germany at Deutsche Bank
  • August 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019: Hans-Jürgen Niemeier (CEO), previously managing director of CONET Holding GmbH
  • August 1, 2018 to April 30, 2020: Bernd Klinder , previously Managing Director and Managing Director at ThyssenKrupp Business Services GmbH

Committee of Inquiry

The award of consultancy contracts by the BWI to companies like McKinsey was investigated by the consultant affair investigation committee of the German Bundestag .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e This is the BWI. In: BWI GmbH. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Topping- out ceremony for the HERKULES office building in Meckenheim, press release from BWI GmbH. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Make one out of two: BWI companies merge to form BWI GmbH. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 1, 2017, accessed February 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/industrie/:siemens-erhaelt-groessten-order-aller-zeiten/145287.html ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bundeswehr and BWI conclude new service contract Press release from BWI GmbH. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Biere expands data center network of the Bundeswehr. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ One billion euros for digital infrastructure. In: BMVg. August 15, 2019, accessed February 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ One- stop architecture: the basis for digitizing health care in the Bundeswehr. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Networked into the future: digital solutions for the Bundeswehr. Accessed July 3, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Gerhard Heiming: Digital combat control system introduced into the troops. In: European Security & Technology. May 28, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Trade fair visitors experience BWI as an innovation driver. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Federal Government: Implementation Strategy for Digitization - Cyber ​​Innovation Hub. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  13. ^ Company BWI GmbH honored with platinum award -... In: bundeswehr-journal. September 21, 2018, accessed July 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ eGovernment Awards 2019: BWI awarded gold. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ BWI is one of the most innovative companies in Germany. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  16. ↑ TOP 100: BWI again one of the most innovative German companies. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ Award: German company pension price 2020 awarded. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Meike Schreiber Looking away with all her might , in Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 6, 2020
  19. ↑ Patrick Pehl: Too many external consultants in the ministry. In: Consultant affair. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  20. ↑ Thomas Schmoll: "There was just a direct line". N-TV , October 18, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  21. ↑ "The fault is in the system". N-TV , October 20, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  22. ↑ n-tv NEWS: Von der Leyen knew about it for months. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .