Industry Looksto Aid Nato

摘要

International defense acquisition reform finally may come from a NATO industrial group traditionally known for generating studies rather than initiating innovative reorganization. The NATO Industrial Advisory Group, known as MAG, is striving to redefine the relationship between industry and the 26 nations that constitute its parent alliance.rnThese efforts do not entail a wholesale restructuring of NATO defense acquisition. The complexity of military procurement involving more than two dozen nations precludes that approach. Rather, NIAG endeavors to bring NATO acquisition out of the past and into the present, where new technologies appear quickly, and traditional acquisition procedures are increasingly obsolescent to the point of being counterproductive.rnThe industrial group already has taken the first steps to clear the way for NATO defense acquisition reform. It has reached out to nontraditional clients in the NATO community, and it has increased the type of products it can generate in support of NATO endeavors. NIAG is striving to be more relevant to NATO, declares the group's chairman. Dr. Raffaele Esposito, who also is the Italian industrial representative to the NATO Research and Technology Board, says that industry is working to find better ways to interact with NATO.