The mission of the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (WTD 71) is to provide support to the Germany Navy on maritime issues of defense science and technology. WTD 71 is both, a technical test center and a research institute, evaluated by the German scientific council. Its scope of tasks comprises the entire range of maritime defense technology in all phases of the materiel development process. The focus of the activities is on the ship as an overall system and on the interaction of different components of this system in the maritime environment.
Role in MMinE-SwEEPER
As Associated Partner WTD 71 is contributing to several work packages, incl. topics related to research on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and on software for exploiting Artificial Intelligence.