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Undersecretariat for Defence Industries
Prof. Dr. İsmail DEMİR

The main decision making body of the system supports the procurement process including
is Defence Industry Executive Committee, domestic development, may range from
ratified by Law No:3238. It is chaired by the basic research and applied research to
Prime Minister and consists of the Chief of experimental development. R&D projects
General Staff and the Minister of National can be executed in advance of or concurrently
Defence. with the main system projects, and aim to
minimize external dependence in the future.
The Executive Committee is basically Significant technological achievements
assigned with; made in R&D studies conducted by SSM so
far have become the building blocks of the
•Making critical decisions relating to main system projects today.
defence industry issues and major defence
procurement according to the Armed Forces Besides, the Defence R&D Roadmap
Strategic Target Plan, developed by SSM, is believed to better
•Instructing SSM to conduct research illustrate the contribution of technology
and development of modern arms and in the acquisition process. In the R&D
equipment, and to have their prototypes Roadmap R&D projects and procurement
built, projects are handled as two separate
•Setting the guidelines for uses of Defence processes where R&D projects support
Industry Support Fund. all procurement projects, including local
development. In other words, R&D is not
Research and Development Supports seen as a procurement process in itself.
Undersecretariat for Defence Industries
R&D Support The main stages of the R&D Roadmap are:
Undersecretariat for Defence Industries •Building a Platform-System-Subsystem-
supports technology intensive R&D activities Component-Technology breakdown
in priority areas, compatible with the needs structure based on the priority areas and
and objectives of main system projects, local development projects to be conducted
that involve collaboration of the industry, under these areas,
universities and research organizations. •Identifying the capabilities/infrastucture/
R&D, treated as a parallel process that insufficiencies of the Subsystems,

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