Investimentos Orçamentários na Marinha do Brasil de 2012 a 2017: prioridade governamental atribuída e suas consequências para a Defesa Naval

Abstract

It establishes the analysis of investments in the Brazilian Navy (BN), in recent years, regarding government spending of its own nature in other public areas and its consequences for the Naval Force. It is also a priority given to these public expenditures and compatible with a constitutional mission of BN and the one established by the policies and laws related to the National Defense. A methodology adopted with a bibliographical research, which uses as theoretical support laws, policies, books, manuals and articles on the subject, and document a database of federal government agency portals. It also presents how it is structured or federal planning system, which includes the Plurianual Plans and the Annual Budget Law, and as activities imposed on BN by the Federal Constitution, complementary legislation, policies and documents of the Ministry of Defense. It verifies and analyzes the investments of the Union between 2012 and 2017 in terms of budgetary functions and sub-functions, where BN occupies the seventh priority position. In spite of this, it observes a reduction of the operational capacity of Navy, due to the decrease of the active service of several ships, without which it has been replaced by others of the similar size. These and other aspects which had studied along this work, lead us to the conclusion, despite the relative governmental priority assigned to the amounts allocated in BN budgets, it is below of the real needs of the Navy to fulfill the various tasks under its responsibility.