MAIN HEADLINES FROM THIS ISSUE:

• New Turkish offset directive will bring major changes

  Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) is working on a new industrial participation and offset directive. The document, which is scheduled for release before the end of this year, will………..

• Turkey endorses a civil procurement offset policy

  Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) has petitioned for the introduction of a civil offset policy to be applied to government procurements. The appeal, we are told, has the backing of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.

• Kuwait: “We don’t need the money, we need the management”

  Kuwait’s recent National Offset Company (NOC) boardroom sweep has led to the introduction of significant reforms in offset implementation. Obligors have to brace themselves for a new way of thinking.

• Minister sets a quota for Indonesia’s ad hoc defence offset policy

  Indonesia will now insist on binding all military procurements from foreign companies to technology transfer and joint production projects, the Deputy Defence Minister, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, has declared. The seller would have to propose…….

• How Alenia Aeronautica contended with a high attrition rate in Turkey

  Pierluigi Parolin, Alenia Aeronautica’s Senior Advisor for Offset, offered Izmir conference delegates a revealing look at the high attrition rate in Turkey between offset planning and implementation…….