A meeting with the governor of the General Authority for Military Industries GAMI in Saudi Arabia
There are many developments in the Saudi military industry.The most important of which is the launch of supply chains for industries soon.
Also, the number of licensed companies reached 91 military manufacturing companies, from 7 companies two years ago..
- Military industries are one of the most important elements of Vision 2030 in Saudi Arabia
- Creating military entities to localize and develop technology for strategic and security reasons, and to be an important economic tributary to Saudi Arabia.
- A major factor for technology transfer and technology localization
- The Crown Prince set a vision for localizing 50% of the weapons
We have developed 3 pillars to implement the military industrial vision:
1- Department of Military Purchases
2- Localizing the military industries
3- Transfer and localization of technologies and research
- The first pillar is to improve the mechanism and management of military procurement to benefit from the localization of industries through these contracts - to increase transparency - to benefit from the unification of the power of laws in the security sectors
- The second important pillar, we have identified 11 defense and security systems to be localized in the next decade (10 years) according to the needs and depending on the Kingdom’s defense policies, and will ensure the transfer and development of technologies in the Kingdom.
- The third pillar there is no industry without research and development that keeps pace with this industry.
- The agency’s strategy has identified seven systems that need to be developed, branching out of which 21 technologies as research and development .
- Research and development will keep pace with the development of manufacturing and services transfer.
- We focused on building the Saudi human cadres in the military industry and creating distinctive jobs in the military industry.
- This will achieve strategic independence pillars in terms of equipment, defense, weapons and military readiness, and allow us to develop and transfer military industries and operate jointly between the parties.
- The requirement of the localization rate does not affect the industry, maintenance and sustainability in the Kingdom, but rather enhances the readiness in manufacturing and supply chains faster in the Kingdom in addition to maintenance and sustainability instead of importing from abroad.
- The Saudi military purchasing power, we take advantage of it to pressure companies to localize the military industries.
- The benefit was for foreign manufacturers, and now things must change, and the payment allowance will be partial payment and the rest is invested in the kingdom to settle the military industries.
- In the seventies, petrochemicals were non-existent in the kingdom, and now the kingdom is one of the best three or four countries in the world, producing, technologies and developing petrochemical industries until it has been competing with all countries in the world. And now our responsibility is to benefit from the expertise to build the military industry sector and to apply the experience in building a distinct military industries sector.