📋 Tender Overview
February 6, 2025
Munich Bavarias Minister of Economics Hubert Aiwanger and Minister of State Dr. As head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, Florian Herrmann, together with the Bavarian Security and Defense Industry (SVI), adopted a 10-point action plan to strengthen the industry as a strategically important key industry as part of a round table.
Minister of State Aiwanger: Bavaria is a strong partner for the Bundeswehr and the economy. Because only a powerful security and defense industry enables political sovereignty, national ability to act and resilience in times of crisis. Bavaria occupies a top position in Germanys security policy provision. A third of all -German value creation is generated in Bavaria.
Minister of State Dr. Herrmann: We are in the middle of the turn of the times. In view of the globally shifting balance of power and the aggressive occurrence of some players, our armed forces and our companies in the security and defense industry are decisive partners. The Bavarian government is behind the industry that needs reliability and predictability. We know: security is the prerequisite for our freedom.
Stefan Thome, CEO of Airbus Helicopters in Germany: The security and defense industry is diverse and broad in Bavaria. It is innovative and powerful and it is above all: capable of delivery. A close shoulder between politics and military technology is important and necessary. That is why we thank the Bavarian state government for many years of support and also for the initiative for this 10-point plan. We strongly support this plan.
Bayerns SVI companies stand for sales in the Free State of over 4 billion euros and 45,000 directly employees and another 90,000 employees along the entire value chain.
The State Ministry of Economics, Landes Development and Energy (STMWI) supports the security and defense industry as a separate economic policy field of action. In 2023, a SVI technologiehub was founded innovatively at the STMWi subsidiary Bavaria. The goals are cross -industry networking and technology transfer. Several Bavarian technology support programs (BayVP, BayTP+ and others) are specifically available for strengthening the industry as an innovation engine.
Aiwanger: The 100 billion-euro special assets for the Bundeswehr also initiated significant investment decisions in Bavaria and led to numerous orders. However, in 2028 we are not allowed to go against the wall after leaving the special fund. The federal government must give companies reliability and planning security for investments and recruits.
The 10-point action plan SVI:
Bavaria:
Promote cross -sector networking and innovation:
With our technology hub for the security and defense industry (Techhub SVI), we offer a cross-sector networking and support offer that promotes the mutual knowledge and technology transfer of business and science for joint innovations and projects.
Secure the technology lead:
We focus on the security and defense industry in technology promotion. With the Bavarian technology promotion programs, we specifically support the industry in the development of technologically new products and processes as well as the application of new technologies.
Strengthen Bavarian security and defense industry abroad:
Bavaria supports the international networking and cooperation of the industry through trade fair participations as well as delegation and entrepreneurial trips. We in particular make it easier for small and medium -sized companies access to foreign markets.
Germany:
Keep adding value and performance in the country:
We need a strong domestic security and defense industry. To do this, awarding must be increasingly made to domestic companies and expenditure on military technology research and development increases. Procurement decisions must promote national key technologies. The provision of reserves in the sense of strategic resilience must be provided. This requires corresponding political decisions and the willingness to pay appropriate payments. There is also a need for contractual regulations for the integration of German companies in maintenance/service and further development abroad.
Accelerate procurement processes, allow innovation -oriented procurement:
The Bundeswehrs procurement processes must continue to be accelerated and all public procurement law (in particular the innovation partnership) must be used.
Ensure reliable planning security among the companies:
We need a permanent increase in the vertOutgoing tasks in the regular defense budget, more than 2% of gross domestic product GDP and planning security for companies, for example through acceptance agents or long -term orders. Then companies can build and maintain production lines and responsible for the necessary recruitment.
Privileged planning and approval procedures:
For a quick building and expansion of production and storage capacities by the companies, planning and approval and bureaucratic requirements must be reduced similar to the LNG acceleration law.
Enable more scope in German arms export control:
The export of armaments must be simplified and politically flanked, also for scale effects in production in ones own security policy. The German security and defense industry is only competitive and cooperative in international competition if exports are possible, procedural times are clearly regulated and decisions are reliable.
Improve financing conditions:
The financial market rules have to be reconsidered in order to eliminate a partly still existing conflict between security and sustainability. The companies also need corresponding loan programs and guarantees by the federal government; Startups suitable funding opportunities.
Europe:
Further extent and innovative strength of the European defense industrial basis further expand:
The defense trade within the EU must intensify, the expansion of manufacturing capacities promoted, joint procurement strategies are developed and
