Saudi Vision 2030 sets a target to localize more than 50% of military spending on equipment and services by 2030. The General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) has developed the Military Industries Sector Strategy in direct alignment with the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy. GAMI also seeks to achieve the key national strategic priorities.

  • Enhancing military readiness

  • Enhancing strategic autonomy

  • Improving transparency and spending efficiency

  • Building a sustainable domestic military industries

  • Joint operations between all security and military agencies

Pillars of the Military Industries Sector Strategy

  • Military Procurement

    Managing military and security procurement to meet capability requirements, and support readiness, localization, interoperability, and increasing transparency and spending efficiency.

  • Military Manufacturing

    Issuing policies and regulations to enable access to the local military industries sector, licensing and setting standards for supporting manufacturing activities, implementing localization requirements through the Industrial Participation Program.

Enablers of the Military Industries Sector Strategy

  • Incentives

  • Regulations and Polices

  • Human Capital

Localization Domains

  • Air Domain
  • Armament Domain
  • Land Domain
  • Naval Domin
  • Defense Electronics

The MIHC is a testament to GAMI’s commitment to human capital and its belief in the indispensable role of human capital in localizing technologies and defense industries in the Kingdom. GAMI has thus invested heavily in human talent by establishing specialized educational and training programs geared towards developing and honing the necessary skills for the sector, coupled with forming strategic partnerships in an effort to attract niche competencies and expertise, thereby ensuring the achievement of the Kingdom’s Saudi Vision 2030

Strategic Objectives

ضمان توفر القوى البشرية المطلوبة واستدامتها.
Assuring the availability of requisite human capital in the military industries sector.
تعزيز المهارات ومستوى الاحترافية والإبداع للقوى العاملة في قطاع الصناعات العسكرية.
Enhancing the skills and professionalism of the human capital in the military industries sector.
دعم الإبداع في الصناعات العسكرية كجزء من تنمية القوى العاملة.
Enabling innovation in the military industries as an element of human capital Development.
التشجيع على المشاركة والاندماج بين أصحاب المصلحة في عمليات التخطيط والتدريب والتمويل.
Encouraging participation and integration among stakeholders in planning, training, and financing processes.
دعم منظومة تنمية القوى البشرية من خلال السياسات والأنظمة المطلوبة.
Enabling the human capital ecosystem through the necessary policies and regulations.
تنمية القدرات الرقمية بالتركيز على المهارات التقنية الحديثة التي يحتاجها القطاع.
Developing digital capabilities via a focus on the modern technological skills that the sector needs.
ضمان استدامة القوى العاملة بالعمل في القطاع، وأن يكون قطاعاً جاذباً للكفاءات الوطنية.
Ensuring the sustainability of the workforce in the sector and making it an attractive sector for national talent.

GAMI’s Contribution

The MIHC shall contribute in the following ways:

Enabling investment and expansion in local companies.

Enhancing Transfer of Technology.

Increasing Transfer of Production.

Strategy Programs

These Programs shall contribute to bridging the gap between skills that are deemed as requisite in the sector, and the educational outcomes of both Universities and technical & vocational training, thereby enhancing skills of relevance and thus creating:

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job fields

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technical skills

Strategy Initiatives

The MIHC aims to rollout over 60 initiatives that contribute to bridging gaps in the sector. In turn, these initiatives aim to increase awareness of career paths in the defense industries sector and create an attractive highly desired workplace environment.

01

National Academy for Military Industries

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02

Military Industries Scholarship Program (MISP)

More about the academy
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