Description

Advanced defence research include works (dealing with research, studies and demonstrations) in the sciences, techniques, technologies, concepts and methods undertaken prior to the initiation of armament programmes. They are organised in accordance with Ministerial instruction no. 2447 of 29 January 2001, and their purpose is to:

  give manufacturers the technological capacity to manufacture these future systems.

  give the DGA the capacity to specify requirements for these future programmes, both in the short, middle and long terms.

In many foreign countries, upstream studies would be called Research and Technology (R&T). In fact, they are only a part of the aggregate Research and Development (R&D), which is broader because this includes part of the work done on armaments programmes once they have been launched.

Advanced defence research are oriented by long-term military requirements described in a prospective plan that stipulates the new types of armaments to be developed and the corresponding new technologies needed.