Quantum Systems and Daimler Truck Join the Bundeswehr's InterRoC Convoy Project, Targeting 2027 Road Certification

Quantum Systems and Daimler Truck announced on 16 June 2026 that the German Armed Forces had commissioned them to develop and test unmanned convoy solutions for military logistics. The work sits within InterRoC (Interoperable Robotic Convoy), an existing Bundeswehr research-and-technology project run through the federal procurement office BAAINBw, with the Bundeswehr Automotive Center (ZKfWBw) as the partner for any follow-on programme. The driver is personnel: senior figures at both firms framed the project as a way to move more matériel with fewer soldiers, against a German truck-driver shortfall that the end of conscription has deepened.

Quantum Systems will integrate its MOSAIC Ground Autonomy Kit onto Daimler Truck's Mercedes-Benz Arocs platform, controlled through the MOSAIC UXS command-and-mission-planning suite. The concept is an 'electronic drawbar' in a leader-follower formation: one crewed lead truck guides several unmanned followers along the same route, automatically or by teleoperation, including where communications are degraded. The partners are aiming for road-traffic certification by 2027. Reported by hartpunkt and Handelsblatt, the announcement carried no contract value and no vehicle count — Quantum's Hendrik Kramer declined to say how many trucks would be retrofitted. This is a development-and-test task, not a supply order.

The proprietary read. The framing of two newcomers winning a Bundeswehr mandate understates the field. InterRoC is not a fresh programme: BAAINBw has run it since 2022, with Rheinmetall convoying modified HX2 trucks and placing in the European Land Robot Trial. What changed is that a sensor-and-software entrant and Europe's largest truck maker have now been written into the same project, while Arx Robotics works the adjacent crew-to-teleoperation logistics niche. The contest is less about whether Germany automates its convoys than about whose autonomy stack — and whose certification path — the Bundeswehr standardises on, as flagged in Signal No. 84.