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  "description": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerlin, 24 June 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * On 24 June 2026 the Bundestag's budget committee (Haushaltsausschuss) approved a roughly €2.4 billion seventh amendment to the D-LBO command-radio contract (Digitalisierung Landbasierter Operationen), of which about €2.0 billion equips new platforms\n * The funding covers some 32,000 additional command radios (Führungsfunkgeräte) — software-defined sets of the Soveron family supplied by Rohde & Schwarz under a framework running since 2022\n * The",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T19:08:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.grosswald.org",
  "tags": [
    "Signal No. 90",
    "Großwald Systems: D-LBO — Digitalisierung Landbasierter Operationen",
    "Leaked BMVg report rates D-LBO digital radio “ungenügend” after €2 billion",
    "BAAINBw places €1.04 billion IdZ-ES soldier-system order with Rheinmetall"
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  "textContent": "Berlin, 24 June 2026\n\n### Key points\n\n  * On 24 June 2026 the Bundestag's budget committee (Haushaltsausschuss) approved a roughly €2.4 billion seventh amendment to the D-LBO command-radio contract (Digitalisierung Landbasierter Operationen), of which about €2.0 billion equips new platforms\n  * The funding covers some 32,000 additional command radios (Führungsfunkgeräte) — software-defined sets of the Soveron family supplied by Rohde & Schwarz under a framework running since 2022\n  * The radios are to digitise more than 10,000 vehicles of “Division 2025,” the encrypted, jam-resistant division Germany has committed to NATO, with equipping due to complete by end-2027; the amendment sits inside a D-LBO programme costed at about €11.5 billion\n  * Because the fleet cannot be retrofitted in one pass, the contract also funds “Mischbetrieb” — interoperability between upgraded, not-yet-upgraded and non-retrofittable vehicles; the radio buy was one of four procurement items the committee cleared that day\n\n\n\nGermany's Bundestag budget committee approved about €2.4 billion on 24 June 2026 for some 32,000 additional software-defined command radios, advancing the digitisation of the army division Berlin has pledged to NATO.\n\nThe Haushaltsausschuss cleared a seventh amendment (7. Änderungsvertrag) to the D-LBO command-radio contract — formally the Führungsfunksystem within the Digitalisierung Landbasierter Operationen programme — at a volume of about €2.4 billion, of which roughly €2.0 billion equips newly fielded platforms. The radios are software-defined sets of the Soveron family built by Rohde & Schwarz, drawn on a framework contract for more than 30,000 units that has been running since 2022, with deliveries under way since 2023. The committee did not attach a named statement to the approval; it was one of four procurement items decided the same day, alongside a separate D-LBO IT-integration order, a Boxer option and a mobile-workshop framework.\n\nThe purpose is to give Division 2025 — the division Germany has committed to NATO at full readiness — digital, encrypted and jam-resistant communications across more than 10,000 vehicles and platforms, with the army aiming to complete the equipping by the end of 2027. The €2.4 billion is not additional to the programme but sits within a D-LBO effort costed at about €11.5 billion overall. Because more than ten thousand vehicles cannot be converted at once, the contract funds “Mischbetrieb,” the mixed operation in which already-upgraded, not-yet-upgraded and non-retrofittable platforms — down to digital handheld radios — must still interoperate through the transition.\n\n**The proprietary read.** This is the rearmament that never makes a headline: not a tank or a missile but the radio net that lets a division fight as one under jamming. A spearhead division is only as fast as its command links, and the Mischbetrieb line is the honest admission inside the contract — Germany will go to readiness mid-transition, with old and new radios sharing the same battlefield. As Signal No. 90 noted, the procurement headlines track the steel; the harder, slower work is wiring it together by 2027.\n\nRelated · Bundeswehr land-forces digitisation\n\nGroßwald Systems: D-LBO — Digitalisierung Landbasierter Operationen (systems reference)\nLeaked BMVg report rates D-LBO digital radio “ungenügend” after €2 billion (6 April 2026)\nBAAINBw places €1.04 billion IdZ-ES soldier-system order with Rheinmetall (27 April 2026)\n\nSources: BMVg · Bundestag Haushaltsausschuss · Bundeswehr · Rohde & Schwarz.\n\nFirst reported in Signal No. 90, 25 June 2026.",
  "title": "Bundestag Clears €2.4 Billion for 32,000 Soveron Radios to Digitise Germany's NATO Division 2025",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-01T10:32:44.138Z"
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