Ministry of Defense of Georgia
August 26, 2014
“Defence Integrated Program” Revision
“Defence Integrated Program” 2015-2018 was reviewed at Defence Ministry of Georgia today. Deputy Defence Ministers Mikheil Darchiashvili and Alex Batiashvili led the meeting. Deputy Chief of General Staff of the GAF, Colonel Giorgi Kbiltsetskhlashvili and the representatives from the various structural units of the MoD attended the meeting as well.
The meeting aimed to prioritize the programs, subprograms and program elements of “Defence Integrated Program”, as well as to define estimated budget.
Mikheil Darchiashvili highlighted the importance of programming budget in the direction of transparency and NATO interoperability. He also outlined that the successful fulfillment of the process under NATO commitments will be a significant step forward.
The representatives of the various departments form the MoD and General Staff presented to the top brass the program budget calculations of 2015, plans for development and priorities according to the directions of their supervisor.
Deputy Defence Minister Alex Batiashvili summed up the meeting. He evaluated the progress achieved in the direction of resource management reformation and emphasized the importance of rational and effective allocation of financial resources.
“Defence Integrated Program” was elaborated for the first time. The document will be the basis for the development of defence program for 2015 and coming years. The program aims to develop defence resource planning system accordingly western standards and principles. The program budget is one of NATO’s main demands. CUBICs officials and experts from other partner countries headed by Bill Craven consulted the MoD representatives while elaborating the “Integrated Defense Program”.
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