O desenvolvimento de tecnologias de caráter dual pela indústria de defesa brasileira: desafios e oportunidades para a Marinha Brasileira

Abstract

Brazil’s National Defense Industry, as well as in other developing countries, faces several challenges to develop. Exclusives military products and services demands would hardly sustain these industries, largely due to budgetary constraints and other demands in also priority areas such as health and education. Thus, national companies that already operate in the defense area could try to develop products and services of dual character, either as a strategy for periods of economic crisis, or even as a permanent policy. In this context, three concepts constantly interact in order to develop, namely: defense economics, defense industry and dual technology. Therefore, the present work will seek, using the search and investigation methodology through bibliographic and documentary research, as well as interviews, to approach these three concepts and carry out a case study on the national company SKM. The company operates in one of the eight segments of the Defense Industrial Base, the of Electronic Systems and Command and Control Systems, and for the past nearly thirty years it has met the requirements of the Brazilian Navy and civil sectors such as the offshore. It presents the challenges faced by the company, its solutions found and the importance of the development of dual technology as a strategy for survival through adverse economic circumstances. Finally, recent national events are reported, which bring positive perspectives for the industrial and naval sector in the State of Rio de Janeiro and, consequently, for the dual development for the national industry and for the MB