Senior technical service in the Bundeswehr administration - specializing in defense technology -

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The advanced technical service in the Bundeswehr administration - specializing in defense technology - is a specialist preparatory service in Germany for the career of the advanced technical administration service . The aim of the preparatory service is to impart the general and defense- related knowledge and skills required for versatile use in the field of defense technology of the higher technical administrative service of the Bundeswehr ( Section 1 (1) GtDBWVAPrV).

General

The candidates are familiarized with defense technology and technical project management in the preparatory service. They learn to apply their university knowledge in accordance with military and economic requirements. In addition, they are made familiar with the relevant legal principles. Your understanding of technical, economic and administrative relationships is promoted. General professional skills, in particular for communication and teamwork, for critical examination of one's own actions and for independent and economic action, as well as social competence are to be promoted ( Section 1 (2) GtDBWVAPrV).

The focus of the training is geared towards one of the following six specialist areas ( Section 1 (3); Section 14 (1) GtDBWVAPrV):

  1. Automotive and equipment (KG; special military features for vehicles, systems and equipment, assemblies, operation and special questions),
  2. Aerospace (LR; military aircraft, on-board and ground equipment for military aircraft, licensing),
  3. Shipbuilding and marine engineering (SSm; design and construction of naval ships, ship technical systems, weapons and command systems, special areas in the development process and in the use of military material sea),
  4. Information technology and electronics (ITE; information acquisition and transmission and processing, system technology),
  5. Electrical engineering and electrical energy systems (EE; defense requirements, energy supply, regulation and control, electrical systems in weapon systems) or
  6. System armaments and effectors (SBE).

The preparatory service consists of a practical professional study period if the scientific and methodological knowledge required for the career tasks can be proven by a university degree completed with a bachelor’s degree or by an equivalent degree, or a bachelor’s degree with integrated professional practical study periods ( § 2 GtDBWVAPrV).

the following training phases are planned ( Section 10 (1) GtDBWVAPrV):

  1. Course "Tasks and Organization of the Bundeswehr and Status Issues",
  2. Presentation of the possible uses in the field of defense technology of the higher technical administration service,
  3. "General Defense Technology" course,
  4. "Technical Project Management" course,
  5. Course "Profitability in Project Management",
  6. Course "Technical Basics of Individual Defense Technical Areas",
  7. Course “Legal Basics in Practice” (imparting the legal and administrative knowledge necessary for the later performance of tasks) and
  8. practical training (supplementing knowledge of defense technology and economic knowledge; deepening the knowledge acquired in the courses; interdisciplinary application in practice.)

In the "General Defense Technology" course, the candidates are taught cross-disciplinary defense technology content, security-political aspects and general topics specific to the Bundeswehr. In the “Technical Project Management” course, the candidates are familiarized with the general principles of technical project management in the armaments sector as well as the Bundeswehr-specific procedures and methods of project management. In the course “Efficiency in Project Management”, the candidates are given task-specific basic knowledge of business administration and economics, knowledge of the various methods and procedures of economic feasibility studies and basic knowledge of budget law ( § 13 Paragraph 1–3 GtDBWVAPrV).

Personnel selection

Assessment center for executives in the Bundeswehr (2019)

The personnel selection takes place at the assessment center for executives of the Bundeswehr in Cologne . Anyone who fulfills the legal requirements for appointment to the employment relationship of a civil servant and (e.g. generally German citizenship , not yet 50 years of age) and has a technical college entrance qualification or a bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree can be employed in the preparatory service has a subject in a subject that can be assigned to one of the subject areas of the preparatory service ( § 5 GtDBWVAPrV), declares himself ready to take part in foreign deployments of the Bundeswehr and agrees to work as a civil servant in the higher technical administration service for at least five years after completing his studies and passing the career test to be.

The application process usually begins by contacting the career advisor . The contact can also be initiated independently via the application portal of the Bundeswehr. The subsequent assessment for the specialist preparatory service is a two-stage procedure that is carried out at the assessment center for Bundeswehr executives. In the first part, which usually lasts no more than three hours, the computer-aided test procedures listed below are completed:

  • Math proficiency test
  • Die test
  • verbal intelligence
  • mechanical knowledge
  • electrical engineering understanding

If this first phase has been successfully mastered, i.e. the test results indicate a later study success, the applicants are invited to the second part of the selection process. This phase lasts all day and includes the following tasks:

  • an essay from the fields of politics, technology or social issues
  • a short lecture on a general technical issue
  • a roundtable discussion with questions about technical understanding, civil service and state law as well as the desired course of study
  • an interview for personal motivation and identification with the Bundeswehr as an employer

dual study

RheinMoselCampus of the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences

The training encompasses both career training as civil servant in higher technical administration with a focus on defense technology as well as a technical degree with a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Science degree . Academic training can take place at the following universities:

The following courses are offered:

At the start of career training, candidates are appointed revocable officers . After successful studies and career training, you are appointed as a probationary civil servant and, as a rule, after three years as a civil servant for life . Graduates work, for example, in the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed Forces (BAAINBw), a defense technology agency or international armaments cooperation institutions and often work with representations from European partner countries, the USA and foreign industry.

Headquarters of the BAAINBw management in the Prussian government building in Koblenz

Official titles

The superior technical service with integrated studies are offices of grades 9 A to A 13 of the Federal pay regulation of the Federal Law grade assigned:

Grade Official title appropriate rank
A 9 Technical Inspector Technical Government Inspector
(TRI) 		Lieutenant
at sea
A 10 Senior technical inspector Senior government inspector
(TROI) 		Oberleutnant
Oberleutnant zur See
A 11 Technical Officer (TA) / Technical Officer (TAfrau) Technical Government Officer
(TRA) 		Captain
Lieutenant
A 12 Technical Office Council (TAR)
Technical Government Office Council (TRAR) 		Captain
Lieutenant
A 13 Technical Higher Official Council (TOAR)
Technical Higher Governmental Council (TROAR) 		Staff Captain Staff
Captain Lieutenant

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