Indústria de material de defesa, inovação e dualidade

Abstract

This paper aims to present government incentives, with participation of the private sector to develop and strengthen the National Defense Industry as stated in the National Defense Strategy looking to reference the capacity of innovation and manufacturing of dual-use technology with the Maximum of national technology in order to meet the needs of the armed forces and the external market. Initially it will be introduced an overview of the historical development of the international and Brazilian defense industry and initiatives focusing on the production by the state and private enterprise. It will be presented the importance of the Defense Industrial Base, a strategic sector for the sovereignty of the state, as it was for the country in the 1970s until the late 1980s, when Brazil conquered important market in the international armaments, passing, in the early 1990s, by a decline due to internal economic crises and in the international cenario both for economic policies such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent end of the Cold War, as a consequence a military material supply offer occured both from the countries of the Warsaw Pact as the North Atlantic Treaty. After the presentation of government initiatives to strengthen the defense equipment industry, in cooperation with the private sector, it will be mentioned some benefits to society provided by the Defense Industrial Base.