📋 Tender Overview
The Senate on Thursday (10), in the first round, the project of Legislative Decree, with the updated versions of the National Policy of Defense, the National Defense Strategy and the White Book of National Defense. The text should still go through a new voting shift on Wednesday (11).
The project is the result of the, which analyzed in December the original version presented by the Executive Power (). If the project is approved, the three documents with the updates made by the Congress will become instruments to guide national public defense policies.
The Joint Commission, consisting of six deputies and six senators, is responsible for the external control of the activities of federal agencies and entities, such as the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), the Armed Forces and the Federal Police. The update of the three documents is foreseen in, which requires the government to send them every four years to analyze the congress. The suggestions of parliamentarians are sent to the Presidency of the Republic.
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The National Defense Policy (PND) establishes the national defense objectives, while the National Defense Strategy (END) defines strategies and actions to achieve these objectives.
The National Book of National Defense (LBDN), in turn, opens up to society access to information about the sector, as well as ensuring transparency and creating opportunities for the debate on national defense.
Among other aspects, the approved report draws attention in the PND for the concept of a inseparable development of the country national defense and praises the objective of coordination between diplomats and military. The report also suggests an expansion of Brazils partnerships in the defense area.
The END update provides for measures such as the consolidation of the Brazilian capacity for access to space and the need to complete the structure of the Military Cyber Defense System. The report also points out that the current abilities of the defense sector should be clearer in the white book.
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