ETH Workshop: Arms Procurement

11 November 2015

On 11 November 2015, politicians, delegates of public administration and industry as well as experts and guests discussed trends and problems of future defense procurement. A first panel of experts presented on current trends in global and European arms procurement. A second panel discussed the Swiss Army’s arms procurement policy (2015-2020). It was led by the question of how global and European trends influence Switzerland on the three levels of arms procurement policy, Army, and industry. The need for planning reliability was much emphasised, which may be achieved through global budgets.