Plans are well under way and contracts are already in place with some contractors for the Emirates Defence Industries Company to take control of joint ventures and transferred technologies. We were startled to be told the changes are taking place in an atmosphere of peaceful coexistence.....
India’s MoD has reached a decision on the long-delayed policy for identifying “strategic partners” (SPs). The MoD had not released details of the new policy as we went to press, but three individuals present at the department’s meeting told India’s Business Standard the new policy’s scope, the criteria and the procedures for selecting SPs and the foreign OEMs they would partner.....
Prince Mohammed bin Salman has declared that the Saudi government has reached the unanimous decision that any industry benefitting from a government purchase must be linked to the government's local content requirements. In some industries, suppliers have refused to transfer technologies. The Kingdom will now require them to use materials made in Saudi Arabia.
A blogger understood to be SSM’s former Undersecretary for Defence Industry, Murad Bayar, said that Turkey is giving preference in defence procurement to Russia and China because those countries are ready to offer offsets that NATO members refused to consider.