The Bolivarian National Armed Forces’ research, development and innovation systema disruptive approach towards achieving the technological independence of the defense sector

Abstract

The objective of this research is to socialize the conceptual architecture of the constitutive elements that sustain the Bolivarian National Armed Forces’ (FANB) Research, Development, and Innovation System as part of an innovative, disruptive process that allows it to move towards its Technological Independence. It is the product of the systematization and organization of methodological processes that began with a search for information on the proposed topic and subsequently contrasting it with interviews and focus groups with FANB actors. All of this allowed a system to be generated, with a recursive structure, i.e., it incorporates a Sub-System of Integral Management into the FANB, as well as a prime requirement Sub-System, a Sub-System of Execution and a Sub-System of Financing, which also constitutes with an organizational instrument in terms of research, development, and innovation, and the automation of undertaking projects and establishing strategies oriented towards the decision-making process in the FANB. This system is expected to boost the strengths of each of the units, companies, and industries of the FANB, in which systematicity permeates science, technology and innovation in strategic areas to produce knowledge and solutions that contribute to the development of the Nation, promoting a new endogenous technology with criteria of independence and sovereignty without imperial, corporate or dependent subjections; and, at the same time, which opens a range of possibilities to foster harmonious relations with other State entities, thus consolidating active participation within a framework of co-responsibility.