📋 Tender Overview
Various actions will be implemented to optimize the management of this war material in the Armed Forces.The Minister of Defense, Walter Astudillo Chavez, headed the presentation ceremony of the Strategic Plan for the Management of Small Arms, Ammunition and Explosives in the Defense Sector, an institutional effort to ensure the fulfillment of actions and objectives for the effective management of small arms, ammunition and explosives in the units of the Armed Forces.
The event was attended by the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Army General David Ojeda Parra; the commander general of the Army, Army General Cesar Briceno Valdivia; and the Vice Minister of Resources for Defense, Adolfo Herrera Orlandini; among other high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces, members of the senior management of the sector and representatives of the cooperating organizations.
Within the framework of a continuous improvement process, this strategic plan not only integrates the different actions that the general directorates of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Institutions must carry out to close the gaps and solve the existing problems in said management, but also establishes the indicators that will allow the monitoring and evaluation of the fulfillment of the actions and objectives.
In this way, the effective and efficient fulfillment of the management of small arms, ammunition and explosives in the powder magazines, arsenals and warehouses of the Armed Institutions, destined for National Security and Defense, is promoted.
The document prepared by the General Directorate of Material Resources, in charge of Brigadier General Paul Vera Delzo, is the product of collaborative work between the Armed Institutions and the Offices and General Directorates of the Ministry of Defense involved in this process. It should be noted that this Strategic Plan includes the recommendations of Report No. 0003-2024-MINDEF/VRD-CSRM that the Sectoral Commission of the Ministry of Defense made at the time.
As recalled, in view of the fact that numeral 7) of article 10 of Legislative Decree No. 1134 establishes that the Minister of Defense has the function of directing the strategic planning process and approving the strategic plans of the Defense sector, within the framework of the regulations on National Security and Defense and of Comprehensive Strategic Planning, the pertinent actions were carried out, thus contributing to the functions of the Armed Forces and consequently to National Defense.
Representatives of the organizations involved in the planning and execution of this Strategic Plan attended this meeting, among which the following stand out: the Embassy of the United States of America; the United Nations Regional Center for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC); Mines Advisory Group (MAG); Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA); and Ammunition Management Advisory Team (AMAT).
