Defense Challenge: Bitkom and Cyber Innovation Hub award start-ups
Bitkom and the Bundeswehr's Cyber Innovation Hub honor Pleno and Filancore for developments in the field of drones and software-defined defense.
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The start-ups Pleno from Berlin and Filancore from Limburgerhof in Rhineland-Palatinate were named winners of the first Defense Challenge at the Berlin Security Conference. The Defense Challenge is organized by the digital association Bitkom and the Cyber Innovation Hub of the German Armed Forces to promote innovative solutions in the defence industry.
Pleno and Filancore
Pleno received an award in the "Drones" category. The Berlin-based start-up is developing a modular autonomous operating system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that is designed to be compatible with any hardware and offers machine learning infrastructures for object recognition.
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Filancore won in the "Software-Defined-Defence" category with a decentralized identity and access management system for the Internet of Things (IoT). "The use of self-sovereign identity should enable a seamless and secure connection between machines and people" for an "integrated IoT ecosystem".
"A defensible democracy needs an innovative defense industry, and start-ups play an important role in this," says Niklas Veltkamp, member of the Bitkom Executive Board. "The two winners and the other eight finalists have shown the potential of start-ups from the defense sector and start-ups with dual-use products," says Veltkamp.
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