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Fraunhofer FKIE is part of the Fraunhofer Society and is located in Wachtberg, Germany. The institute engages in applied research and development in the fields of "information gathering, decision making and management", "cyber and information space", "aviation and space", "martime systems", and "land systems".

Since 2010, the Institute has been headed by Peter Martini, who is also head of Department 4 of the Institute of Computer Science at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Departments
Fraunhofer FKIE is organized in ten departments :


 * Sensor Data and Information Fusion (SDF)
 * Communicationsystems (KOM)
 * Information Technology for Command and Control Systems (ITF)
 * Human Factors (HF)
 * Human-Machine-Sysmtes (MMS)
 * System Ergonomics (SE)
 * Usable Security and Privacy (USP)
 * Cyber Analysis & Defense (CA&D)
 * Cyber Security (CS)
 * Cognitive Mobile Systems (CMS)

History
The predecessor of Fraunhofer FKIE was founded in 1955 and was initially called "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der astrophysikalischen Forschung e. V.", renamed to "Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften e. V." in 1975. The institute was finally integrated into the Fraunhofer Society in 2009.

Public Activities

 * In 2016 the Avalanche botnet was destroyed at the end of a four-year project by INTERPOL, Europol, the Shadowserver Foundation, Eurojust, the Luneberg (Germany) police, The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the Fraunhofer FKIE, several antivirus companies, ICANN, CERT, the FBI, and some of the domain registries that had been used by the group.


 * Developement of a management information system called Intelsys for the Cologne Bonn Airport.