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Jun 13, 2018
A feisty Portuguese Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with a hard dislike of offsets will campaign for their exclusion from the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) defence integration project. Leftwinger...
Jun 13, 2018
Lockheed Martin has signed a teaming agreement with the Saudi Specialized Products Company (Wahaj). The agreement will permit the localised manufacture of components for laser-guided bombs. A production line will...
Jun 13, 2018
The Nigerian government has issued an executive order increasing the level of local content in large public procurement deals by any of its ministries. The order awards preference in contracts...
Jun 13, 2018
Germany has adopted a procurement approach that distinguishes between offsets and industrial participation, without defining either. In practice defence contractors maintain that it is impossible to win a major programme...
Jun 13, 2018
Tawazun is changing the requirement to establish joint ventures and planning to amend the offset rules. The draft, we are told, is likely to be ready before the end of...
Jun 13, 2018
When the Emirates Defence Industries Company (EDIC) announced plans in 2015 to take control of joint ventures and transferred technologies, defence contractors scoffed. Three years later it appears EDIC has...