Almost everyone who has ever built a house knows the: A company has not been working properly, it needs to be improved. Not infrequently, so accomplished something in court and probably would in future give the construction company no more orders
But the Defense Department does exactly that. The Airbus group is to provide a software package for 400 million euros – although currently with the European Armorsmiths because of the delayed transport airman A400M, always new quality defects during warplane Euro Fighter and problems with the helicopters NH90 and Tiger has plenty of trouble
In December should flow a first tranche of 200 to 250 million euros for the software to Airbus.. With the software, satellite data of “TanDEM-X” system can be evaluated, and then an extremely detailed three-dimensional map of the Earth’s surface are created. The is then up to two meters accurately and thus more accurate than anything that is currently on the market.
taxpayer has already paid millions
has developed the system, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) together with Airbus Defence and Space. The German taxpayer has already placed 313 million euros for the table. Interesting are the three-dimensional maps, especially for armies that act much with special forces and require accurate data on the topography of their fields of application.
The Bundeswehr would have something like this, but is the financial dimension in reasonable relationship with the military utility? The defense politician Agnieszka Brugger of Alliance 90 / The Greens is skeptical: “Is this really the most urgent, what the Bundeswehr needs currently?”
Minister expresses not to motives
But maybe it’s not so much about the needs of the Bundeswehr. From the outset, the Defense Department has made a great mystery about the reasons for the alleged urgency and suddenly newly emerging importance of the project. Even with Airbus one was surprised that “TanDEM-X” suddenly appeared so far up in the Leyen priority list
Defense Minister von der Leyen.: If you can not look at the cards.
Public information about the motivations of the Minister has not identified any. Only ten parliamentarians to have been informed in secret talks – the Left Party was apparently not invited. Your defense expert Alexander Neu has therefore complained of Defense, he had but just get a meaningless answer
Worldwide network for data usage
But New so has his suspicions.: “It’s obvious that the US wants to ensure high quality data for the preparation of their operations and the control of their weapons.” What is new is not the only one who believed that Washington has increased the pressure on Germany to quickly arrive at the accurate digital map data.
The amounts of raw data, the “TanDEM-X” – deliver satellites are gigantic. One country alone can not handle loud Defense. Therefore, should a multinational network of 35 countries, led by Germany and – to the United States built – hardly surprising. With this should be in addition to NATO partners and fellow democracies like Australia and the United Arab Emirates. The country is currently undertaking together with Saudi Arabia a bloody war of intervention in Yemen.
contract with Airbus poorly negotiated
We must be as fundamentally asking if there are any Put restrictions on the use of data, says Agnieszka Brugger. My group colleague in the Committee on Budgets, Tobias Lindner, wonders also on the financial aspects of the project. If only the entire “TanDEM-X” system is financed to 80 percent by the taxpayer, why should earn plenty of it again because now Airbus? Should not the treaty that Germany at that time made with the Group and the DLR, safeguard the free use of data by the Federal Republic?
If he does even says Lindner. However, the agreement was negotiated so bad that that was explicitly written only for noncommercial, national usage. The multinational, military use was simply forgotten in the contract
Alexander Neu also surprised -. The fact that even the new 400-million procurement contract to be now completed with Airbus. “Would it not be the Federal Ministry of Economics in better hands?” Finally, the Department of Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel had denied the basic funding of the entire space center. Somehow urge once again the impression of felt on finds new.
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