What Happened
Digital Procurement Platform Aims to Speed Up Military Equipment Supply
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has launched a new training course, ‘DOT-Chain Defence Weapons Marketplace,’ aimed at service members responsible for supplying units with drones and equipment. The course, developed by the DOT Defence Procurement Agency and the public organization ‘Magura,’ focuses on using the state IT system to independently order equipment using allocated state funds. The platform, part of the Army of Drones program, is currently used by 486 units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and aims to reduce the time from identifying a need to receiving equipment from months to just nine days. This development was reported by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.