Technology management in Turkish defense industry

Author

Gumus, Bulent ; Demir, Verda ; Kaynak, Unver

Author_Institution

TOBB Univ. of Econ. & Technol., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2009

fDate

2-6 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

2905

Lastpage

2912

Abstract

The Turkish defense industry has been growing significantly since 1970s. The majority of the $416 million USD reserved for R&D budget in 2005 was spent for defense and aerospace industry. The total revenue of the defense companies in Turkey was around $2.2 billion USD in 2008. The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) of Turkey aims to increase the average portion to meet the system requirements through local infrastructure to 50 percent and also to increase the export of defense services and goods to 1 billion USD by 2011. SSM also plans to quadruple the portion of Turkish defense industry in the NATO projects. Companies operating in the defense sector utilize the latest technologies and they have to cope with the fast pace of changes in the technology. On the other hand, the Turkish defense industry is growing significantly and aiming to keep and even accelerate this growth. Therefore, technology management plays a vital role in Turkish defense industry and this research investigates the current status of technology management in the Turkish defense industry.

Keywords

defence industry; research and development management; technology management; Turkish defense industry; research and development management; technology management; Acceleration; Aerospace industry; Defense industry; Educational technology; Protection; Psychology; Quality management; Research and development; Shape control; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Engineering & Technology, 2009. PICMET 2009. Portland International Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

978-1-890843-20-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-890843-20-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261782

Filename

5261782