Airbus,
Rheinmetall According to a media report, OHB and OHB want to build a satellite network for the Bundeswehr work together. Instead of competing against each other, the three companies agreed to tackle the billion-dollar project together,
reported the Mirror. Accordingly, the companies informed the Bundeswehr procurement office about the planned cooperation after the authority had actually asked them to submit individual offers.
According to the report, the plan is for the aircraft manufacturer airbus and the Bremen space and technology group OHB take over the satellite construction and become the armaments company Rheinmetall take care of the networking of weapon systems on the ground, at sea and in the air. For the Bundeswehr The cooperation could therefore be advantageous. The procurement office had already feared lengthy legal disputes if the award was made to a single applicant.
Order volume of up to ten billion euros
The project is about setting up its own communication system for the army, which is… Starlink Network Elon Musk’s US company SpaceX is comparable. According to the Reuters news agency, the order volume could be up to ten billion euros.
The planned three-way alliance would eliminate competition between the providers. This is likely to lead to a direct award of the project.