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Section 4 Improving the Transparency of

the Defense Acquisition Program

and the Competitiveness

of the Defense Industry

The MND has come up with measures to enhance transparency in defense acquisition programs, develop an
efficient national defense acquisition system, strengthen the expertise of those working in defense acquisition
programs, and develop flexibility in program management. It has also helped strengthen R&D capabilities in
defense fields, build the competitiveness of the defense industry, and vitalize defense exports.

Chapter 4

1. Enhancing Transparency in Defense Acquisition Programs

| Developing Sophisticated Measures to Prevent Corruption in Defense Acquisition
Programs | The MND and the DAPA are strengthening preventive anti-corruption measures

to eradicate cozy relations between the military and businesses. The registration program,
designed to put all contractors involved in a tender for a defense acquisition project and
the fulf illment of the contract within a legal and institutional management framework, and

which has been applied to logistics trading agencies, 4) will be expanded to apply to all defense
acquisition project brokers. 5) The MND has devised a measure to impose fines and penalty
surcharges on defense acquisition project brokers who operate without registration coupled with

another to take disciplinary action against public off icials who, without authorization, engage

4) An agency or a group that intermediate or act for a foreign enterprise throughout the course of the conclusion of
a contract for the conclusion of the contract by and between the foreign enterprise and the Minister of DAPA, and
in the course of the performance of the contract
5) All organizations and groups that act as trade agents, brokers, or consultants to assist a company in the
processes of bidding, contract signing, and execution of a defense acquisition project

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