diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 544815b3a3..3880ea60a0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -27,3 +27,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/tinyusb"]
 	path = lib/tinyusb
 	url = https://github.com/hathach/tinyusb
+[submodule "lib/mynewt-nimble"]
+	path = lib/mynewt-nimble
+	url = https://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble.git
diff --git a/lib/mynewt-nimble b/lib/mynewt-nimble
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..223714cb16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/mynewt-nimble
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 223714cb16c255cfa701929c0de6d7579bfd2cdd