📋 Tender Overview
When presiding over the Armed Forces' Extended Superior Council of Commands, the Minister of State and National Defense, Janine Lélis, highlighted that “the time is now to present results, as there is a planning cycle and there is a cycle for the delivery of this planning”, referring to the reforms that still need to be completed by the Armed Forces, after the publication of the Strategic Concept for National Defense.
The Minister referred to the “Military Strategic Concept, the device of the force systems and, equally, the planning for the Military Programming Law”, “essential instruments that aim to conclude a new vision for a qualitative leap in the organization and functioning of the military institution, which aims to be more assertive and effective in its missions”, she defended.
The Government has been complying, said the Minister of National Defense, highlighting that the path that has been built for the Armed Forces “has a single purpose, to empower them, to strengthen them to generate more assertiveness and confidence in their missions”.
In this sense, he highlighted the actions and missions that have been carried out abroad “with the perspective of strengthening the capabilities of our Armed Forces to fulfill their military missions” and, with a “strategic vision” that also translates into “maximizing the capabilities of the Armed Forces to fulfill their duties”.
He highlighted all the work done, which resulted in “robust funding of around 300 thousand contos” to ensure the maintenance of the Guardian Ship. He also highlighted the recent memorandum signed with Luxembourg, for 1.2 million, to bring capabilities to the level of drones, and spoke about military aeronautics, the implementation process of which is underway.
Measures and actions that join others to improve what is the “response capacity and offer a service in terms of maritime security and that brings us a strategic value for the region”, he concluded.
