The Objectives and Innovation Directorate monitors prospective trends, analyses developments and evaluates scientific findings and studies. This includes lessons learned from deployments and exercises. NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization and the EUEuropean Union as well as businesses, universities and institutes provide further impetus.
Strategic or political guidelines and the insights gained from studying Bundeswehr exercises and missions serve to develop the Bundeswehr of the future. This is the core mission of Directorate I of the Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning named “Objectives and Innovation”. The resulting blueprint referred to as “Bundeswehr Capability Profile” mandates what the Bundeswehr should be able to do, and by when – alone or in cooperation with its allies. In the area of innovation management, the Directorate makes a systematic collection of ideas from internal and external sources, assesses their relevance for the capability development of the Bundeswehr, and supports their implementation across all processes.
Project “Unmanned driving of land systems in the Bundeswehr”: A truck equipped with an autonomy kit is driving on a test track to field-test an electronic tow bar.
Bundeswehr/Jana NeumannUnder the authority of the Federal Ministry of Defence, the Directorate is the central point of contact for anyone who wants their ideas to be discussed in an open and holistic approach. This requires a wide variety of management tasks: identifying ideas, and finding innovative ways to implement them as quickly as possible and without delay. One of the core tasks of innovation management is to capture ideas from internal and external actors to evaluate their benefits. To this end, the Directorate brings together creative minds, users, planners and procurers with the aim of maximising their respective performance potential and leverage their capacity for action in support of the Bundeswehr.