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The 2025-2027 Industrial Plan

The 2025-2027 Industrial Plan, approved by the Minister of Defense with Ministerial Decree of April 11, 2025, outlined a key step in revitalizing AID, aiming to strengthen the Agency’s role as a strategic asset for national defense.

To this end, AID intends to revitalize and strengthen the country’s crucial industrial production facilities, ensuring the availability of critical supplies for the industrial production system and stocks of supplies, materials, and pharmaceuticals. This ensures the Armed Forces and the National Health Service receive adequate supplies of essential and hard-to-find goods and services to fulfill their commitments on time. These important objectives will be achieved through the rationalization and modernization of production units, the enhancement of national industry, and the promotion of the use of new technologies with the aim of reducing dependence on supplies from third-party countries.

Within this framework, the strategic guidelines are aimed at:

• launching new technologically innovative industrial initiatives;
• Revitalize existing strategic production;
• Become a “true internal partner” for all Armed Forces;
• Become an active player in R&D through new industrial research, development, and technology transfer initiatives;
• Support international political action, with products compliant with EU/NATO requirements, facilitating the joint development of military capabilities and supporting international cooperation programs;
• Open up to space initiatives in active and passive defense contexts;
• Become a leader in Green Defense, in terms of production sustainability and independence from energy production and critical raw materials;
• Achieve cost-effective management and, where possible, profitability to reinvest in its own Production Units in order to acquire high-tech materials and systems;
• Attract human and professional skills;
• Protect the well-being of personnel;
• Build an efficient and effective organizational structure;
• Strengthen compliance in ethical, social, ESG, equality, and equal opportunities areas.

Furthermore, for each of the Production Units, the General Directorate’s activities are aimed at:

1. consolidating and—where necessary or appropriate—restoring production operations;
2. satisfying requests for “traditional” supplies (captive and market) efficiently and promptly;
3. identifying and launching new development opportunities/programs that maximize the potential of the PP Units, including with the support of qualified private partners;
4. becoming an attractive industrial hub and facilitating regional revitalization.

An area of ​​growing importance for the Agency is represented by international cooperation activities led by the General Directorate. Through these instruments, it contributes to the implementation of assistance and cooperation programs in the defense sector, participating in initiatives promoted by the European Union, international organizations, and bilateral agreements between states.

The General Directorate also promotes research, innovation, and technological development programs aimed at strengthening the Agency’s industrial competitiveness in the medium and long term. The main lines of intervention and implementation concern the modernization of the production capacity of the plants, the development of new technologies in the defense sector, collaboration with universities, research centers and companies, and the technology transfer and valorization of industrial skills.