Office for Telecommunication and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr

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Office for Telecommunication and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr - AFmISBw - X
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active	1990 to 2002
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Central military services of the Bundeswehr
Type	Command authority
Insinuation	Armed Forces Office
Location	Rheinbach , Strausberg , Bonn
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Last head of office	Brigadier General Michael Ludwigs

The Office for Telecommunication and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr ( AFmISBw ) was the central service of the Bundeswehr for the planning, procurement and operation of the telecommunication and information systems of the Bundeswehr. It was subordinate to the Armed Forces Office and thus belonged to the Central Military Services of the Bundeswehr.

history

The telecommunications office of the Federal Armed Forces (FmABw) was set up on October 1, 1982 in Rheinbach with the aim of bringing together all of the tasks of the telecommunications connection service and telecommunications security shared by the armed forces, which had previously been processed in a wide variety of departments. Common functions of the armed forces should, as far as possible, be performed centrally.

On October 1, 1990, the office was also given the responsibilities in the field of information systems and thus the new name of the Office for Telecommunications and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr ( AFmISBw) .

In 1996, 223 soldiers and 79 civilian employees worked in Rheinbach. With new tasks in the field of information technology, the staff increased to almost 350 employees. The office was dissolved on June 30, 2002. The tasks were taken over by the Federal Office for Information Management and Information Technology of the Federal Armed Forces with the Center for Information Technology of the Federal Armed Forces and the Armed Forces Support Command .

The telecommunications forces of the Supreme Armed Forces command were subordinate to the office, which were initially led by the Telecommunications Command 900 , and from April 1, 1994 by the Command Support Brigade 900 .

Locations

The office was based in the Tomburg barracks in Rheinbach near Bonn . Until 1999 there was a branch in Strausberg . The RUBIN system center was located on Hardthöhe in Bonn.

Milestones

The following activities fell within the competence of the office

• Chaining of the until then separate military telecommunications networks in West and East Germany after reunification
• Conversion of the Bundeswehr switching from analog to digital switching technology
• Reorganization of the telecommunications system of the German armed forces with the establishment of the network control center in Rheinbach and four regional network control centers
• Introduction of satellite communication for the Bundeswehr
• Conversion of the analog telecommunications network to ISDNBw
• Introduction of the RUBIN management information system for the Federal Ministry of Defense
• Preparation of the expression of interest procedure for the "outsourcing" of the telecommunications system of the Bundeswehr
• Conceptual preparation of the reorganization of the Bundeswehr IT
• Personnel support for the IT officeBw

organization

The office was led by a head of office who was supported by a staff with the subject areas S 1, S 3 / S 6 / S 2, S 4 and a troop administration. The Bundeswehr stage manager for fixed telecommunications systems reported directly to the head of the office.

The office consisted of three departments with the following departments

• Dept. I - Policy Issues
  • Basics for information and communication systems of the Bundeswehr
  • Organizational principles of command service in the Bundeswehr / training
  • Service regulations command service of the Bundeswehr
  • Coordination of FmEloMat
  • Radio frequency management / NARFA
  • NATO C3 / interoperability
    • Liaison point to the NC3 agency of the Bundeswehr's special representative for the NC3 organization
• Dept. II - Information Systems / Information Security
  • System planning, management InfoSys
  • System center RUBIN
    • Cross-sectional tasks RUBIN
    • Operation and training RUBIN
    • SWPÄ RUBIN
  • Basics of IT security / IT security monitoring Bw
  • Monitoring IT security ZMilDBW / FmSysBw
  • NDA (GE) crypto distribution, crypto administration, crypto record production
• Dept. III - Communication Systems
  • System planning and management KommSysBw
  • Management and deployment / system control and monitoring
  • System support FmSysBw
  • Use of telecommunications services / NALLA GE
    • SATCOMBw / connection command to the regulatory authority and BAPT

Remarks

1. ↑ RUBIN is the proper name of the management information system in the BMVg.
2. ↑ § 38 Award Ordinance
3. ↑ This culminated in the HERKULES project and was the initiator for an external provision of IT services for the Bundeswehr ( BWI GmbH ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Schüren: Scharping praises Rheinbach soldiers. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn). August 2, 2001, accessed August 15, 2020 . 
2. ^ Bundeswehr telecommunications office. Federal Archives, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Mönch-Verlag (ed.): Leadership Support Brigade 900 . Koblenz / Bonn 1994, p. 7 .