📋 Tender Overview
The law that allocates R$30 billion to strategic national defense projects over the next six years () was published in the Official Gazette of the Union this Wednesday (19).
This law originated from a project by senator Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ): the . The text creates an exception in the fiscal framework to accommodate investments by the Armed Forces: R$5 billion per year, over the next six years (from 2026), outside the budget spending limit.
Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP) was the projects rapporteur, . At the time, he stated that the proposal was improved after dialogue with representatives of the Armed Forces.
-- This project aims to ensure that strategic projects for national defense have a guarantee of at least R$30 billion, available for investments in defense in the coming years. During this period, we have the potential to double the volume of resources for this purpose, with the capacity to stimulate the strengthening of the defense industrial base, with relevant multiplier effects and densification of the productive fabric, resulting in the generation of jobs and income, in addition to guaranteeing the much-desired continuity and predictability so that projects are ready and expand our defense capacity -- said Randolfe on the day the Senate approved the text.
During the vote in the Senate, Carlos Portinho defended the expansion of the budget for the national defense industry. For him, what is at stake is not only national security, but also the export of military devices manufactured in Brazil.
By Bruno Augusto, under the supervision of Patricia Oliveira
Agencia Senado (Reproduction authorized upon citation from Agencia Senado)
