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Innovation Competition by the Cyberagentur and the German Navy
MARLIN: Seeking Innovations for Secure Maritime Communication
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) and the German Navy are launching the MARLIN Challenge on May 11, 2026. The challenge seeks new solutions for secure and resilient maritime communications. The challenge is aimed particularly at startups, SMEs, research institutions, universities, and technology-oriented groups from EU and NATO countries. The application deadline is 02.07.2026.
The Cyberagentur’s second challenge seeks. innovative approaches for secure and resilient communication. The aim is to identify, further develop, and test new technical solutions for the maritime domain under realistic conditions.
The challenge is aimed in particular at startups and small and medium-sized enterprises, colleges, universities, and research institutes as well as technology-oriented project teams and expert groups in EU and NATO countries. The focus is on expertise in maritime, communications, or security communications, sensor technology, defence, cyber, radio, and network technology.
MARLIN is designed as a multi-stage competition. The preparation and call for proposals phase is followed by the submission and review of brief solution concepts, the elaboration of approaches, and the development of prototypes. The process concludes with technical validation, a demo week, and the award decision. Thus, the challenge is geared toward concrete development steps and robust results.
In the first phase of the competition, interested participants should submit their expressions of interest and brief proposals by email to angebote@Cyberagentur.de by 2 July 2026. Following a formal eligibility check and technical evaluation, up to six groups to will be admitted the next phase. These groups will further develop detailed implementation plans and functional solutions. In the final phase, the demonstrators will be tested under real-world conditions in a navy sandbox. Based on this, the jury will decide on the rankings.
The MARLIN Challenge aims to help identify technological potential for maritime applications at an early stage and to specifically advance application-oriented developments. The maritime domain places high demands on robust, networked, and resilient communication and technology systems. MARLIN addresses precisely this interface, combining operational requirements with an open, competitive innovation process.
With the launch of MARLIN, the Cyberagentur and the German Navy are expanding their collaboration to include a format that brings together technological excellence, practical testing, and competitive dynamics. The Challenge creates a structured framework to harness new solutions from research, development, and industry for a security-relevant maritime environment.
Further information: https://challenge.cyberagentur.de
Contact:
Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH
Große Steinstraße 19
06108 Halle (Saale)
Michael Lindner
Press Officer
Phone: +49 151 44150 645
Email: presse@cyberagentur.de
Background: Cyberagentur
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) was established in 2020 by the German Federal Government as a wholly owned in-house entity of the federal government, under the joint leadership of the German Federal Ministry of Defence and the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, with the aim of adopting an application-strategy-oriented and interministerial perspective on internal and external security in the field of cybersecurity. Against this backdrop, the work of the Cyberagentur is primarily aimed at the institutionalized implementation of highly innovative projects that carry a high risk with regard to achieving their objectives but, at the same time, have the potential to cause significant disruption if successful.
The Cyberagentur is an integral part of the National Security Strategy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Cyberagentur is led by Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert as Scientific Director and Bettina Bubnys as Commercial Director.
Dr. Julian Laufs, Head of Partner and Knowledge Management
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