Avaliação da sistemática para aquisição de suprimentos na Marinha do Brasil

Abstract

The use of information systems in management or in combat has become both common and vital for all navies around the world, including the Brazilian Navy. Such pervasiveness and dependency come from the ever increasing requirements for better controls and shortened reaction times, regardless the increase in volume, breadth and variety of the information spectrum being handled. The growing importance of information systems in the real of business or military operations has brought the need for sophisticated and integrated data networks supported by a myriad of computers (servers, work stations, hubs and other types of connectivity equipments) whose numbers are in a steady growing pace in the Navy. The steady growth in the number of such computers brings a proportional management complexity increase, as well as an increase in costs for the whole logistics cycle, from demand forecast to distribution, including maintenance. This work aims to analyze the current Information Technology (IT) supply acquisition process, making improvement propositions to reduce operational and total life cycle costs for the main equipment used in information networks of the Brazilian Navy. To achieve that goal, equipment standardization opportunities and the feasibility of an acquisition process with centralized control are discussed. These measures, if adopted, bring the advantages of improving the scale of the operation and the bargain power favoring the Brazilian Navy negotiations and its procurement processes.