diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index df30388..36ddc88 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -76,3 +76,6 @@
 [submodule "pelipress"]
 	path = pelipress
 	url = https://github.com/jjimenezlopez/pelipress.git
+[submodule "blueidea"]
+	path = blueidea
+	url = git@github.com:blueicefield/pelican-blueidea.git
diff --git a/blueidea b/blueidea
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..99dfd29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blueidea
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 99dfd293f934b976594b77262eb419da902783c1