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The General Delegate for Armaments Unveils His Strategic Vision for the DGA

(Source: French Armed Forces Ministry; issued March 15, 2023)
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PARIS --- Emmanuel Chiva, General Delegate for Armaments, has unveiled his strategic vision for transforming the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) to face the challenges of today and the coming decades. This strategic vision enables the DGA to remain an exceptional tool at the service of our National Defence.

This reference document presents the direction and areas of effort identified by Emmanuel Chiva for the DGA.

Transform without breaking what works, give the Ministry and the Armed Forces the tools and weapons necessary for our future capabilities, understand the future without giving in to the urgency of the present, promote the women and men who make and are the DGA: such are the challenges of the transformation of the DGA.

A unique entity within the State, the DGA, since its creation by General de Gaulle in 1961, has allowed France to rank among the world's leading nations in terms of technological defense technology, management of complex projects, cooperations and exports. For more than 60 years, the DGA has provided the French forces with weapon systems that meet their operational needs and prepare for their future, in a real community of destiny with the armed forces.

Made up of around ten large industrial groups, research laboratories and institutes, as well as more than 4,000 start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-sized companies, representing 200,000 jobs spread throughout France, it has framed the development of one of the strongest industrial fabrics in the world.

The DGA is constantly adapting to meet its missions. Today, given the current challenges -- geopolitical, technological, or human -- the stakes are all the greater and require a profound and collective cultural change.

The strategic vision of the General Delegate for Armaments revolves around the redefinition of the missions of the DGA, now five in number, to provide the best responses to the needs of our armies and prepare for the future:

-- Equip and support the armies in a sovereign way by ensuring state project management of the defense system

-- Provide a technological and industrial strategic anticipation capability that contributes to national defense and security

-- Promote a pragmatic approach to cooperation and support exports

-- Guide and support the defense industrial base in a logic of sovereignty

-- Maintain the foundation of nuclear deterrence and develop the cyber capacity of the Ministry of the Armed Forces for the benefit of national security

This strategic vision specifies the challenges and areas of effort associated with each of the missions. It also emphasizes that the institution's success is based primarily on the expertise of its 10,500 agents, civilians and military, mainly engineers and technicians, and that as such it must meet the major and permanent challenge of capturing new talents and openness to young people.

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