Looking to the future

True to the motto “Standing still means falling behind,” Eurocommand is constantly evolving. However, this doesn’t just mean addressing our customers’ needs—both big and small—but also looking ahead to the day after tomorrow and the future beyond.

Looking toward the future.

True to the motto “Standing still is going backward,” Eurocommand is constantly evolving. However, this does not only mean addressing our customers’ requests, big and small, but above all, looking ahead to the day after tomorrow and the future beyond.

For this reason, the week of March 18–22 was dedicated to conferences, with the aim of looking ahead.

As part of the “Staff Work Working Group” of the platform “Mensch in komplexen Arbeitswelten e.V.”, led by Dr. Dominic Gißler, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Fiedrich, and Dr. Gesine Hofinger, another workshop was held in Cologne under the theme “Command and Control Support of the Future.” In addition to various topics related to leadership support, organizational structures, and leadership tools, our project manager Finn Drümmer participated in the discussion on the future of staff work and presented Eurocommand’s perspective on current information management and future prospects in the software development of command and control systems.

At the same time, the 2024 National Forum on Remote Sensing and Copernicus took place in Berlin. The aim of this national forum is to foster participation at the national level in the European remote sensing program Copernicus. At the invitation of the German federal government, represented by the BMDV, BMI, BMEL, BMUV, and the DLR, experts from the space sector and users of the program’s results discussed the program’s achievements to date and its future prospects. During a technical session on effective action in risk and crisis management, our Head of Product Management, Björn Setzer, discussed with the BBK, among others, the use of remote sensing results in operational situations and in command and control systems for information management. He cited the Ahr Valley flood events and the Christmas 2023 floods in Lower Saxony as examples, where, in addition to various aerial survey results, the mapping results from the Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Service provided a key .

We would like to thank everyone involved for the excellent events, which provided valuable insights that will help shape the future direction of the incident command system.

Photos from the SDZ Workshop:
© Photographer Francesca Müller

Photos from the Copernicus Forum:
© Eurocommand GmbH
© DLR OPTSAL Dr. Julia Gonschorek