Brigadier General Friedrich Teichmann

Director, Geospatial Institute Austrian Armed Forces

Dr Friedrich Teichmann is the Director of the Geo-Spatial Institute of the Austrian Armed Forces, responsible for providing geo-data, geo-info-products and geo-services for the Land- and Air-Forces, national and international missions as well as to platforms and weapon/mission/simulation-systems. He is also in charge of the IT-Innovation Department of the Austrian Armed Forces, focusing on interoperability in the area of C4ISR, Electronic Warfare, ICT-Security and Information Management. Till 2011 he worked in the Austrian Ministry of Defence, serving as deputy director of the Information and Communication Technology planning directorate. Before working for the MoD planning directorate coordinating the overall planning and management of the ICT services of the Austrian Military, he was the Department Head for Communications and Information Systems of the Austrian Air Force, focusing on modern Communications, Avionic and Command and Control Systems. Prior to working for the Austrian Air Force he was in charge of the geo-spatial section of the army command, providing national and international mission geo-data. He has over 20 years of professional experience in ICT systems, earth sciences, space applications and complex program management. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in New York as well as Master Degrees from the University of Salzburg (Austria), the University of Maine (USA) and the University of Krems (Austria). He was able to maintain his academic involvement throughout his professional career at the Austrian Military by serving as external lecturer for Space applications, Information Technology and Geo-Informatic/Telematic at three Applied Technical Universities in Austria. Dr. Teichmann is also an international recognized expert for Information Management, IT-Security and Space Technologies and had acted has as national technical expert for the EU GNSS Galileo since 2006. He is a veteran of several international peace support as well as humanitarian catastrophe relief missions and holds a current rank of Brigadier-General.