In the event of a disruption of the supply chain to industry, the price may be our freedom," said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz at the ceremony of signing cooperation agreements to make a safety of supply study in the arms industry. The aim is to make economical policy principles that increase the resilience of national production to global turmoil.
“The COVID pandemic has clearly shown what it means to break the supply chain and not be able to deliver the right product on time”, said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish. – COVID-19 He showed us how dangerous it is erstwhile we lose our independence," he added. Therefore, on the initiative of the MON, work on the study has begun Security of the supply chain in the defence industry. present at the University of Warsaw there was a ceremony of signing cooperation agreements for its creation.
The letter of intent on this initiative was signed by the head of the MON in September 2024 during the XXXIII economical Forum in Karpacz. In March this year, during the 10th European legislature of Local Governments in Mikołajki, the Ministry of Defence concluded cooperation agreements with respective institutions: the Institute of east Studies Foundation, the Military method Academy, the School of Economics and Cracow University of Technology. present another group was joined by the Ministry of State Acts, Ministry of improvement and Technology, Jagiellonian University, AGH University and the University of Warsaw.
Scientists and experts are tasked with analysing the supply chains of the Polish arms manufacture and developing recommendations for state assets and defence ministries, as well as the arms department itself, how to guarantee logistics security. Ensuring continuity of supply is simply a critical condition for maintaining national industrial capacity during the crisis. “If the supply chain is interrupted, we know that the price may be our freedom, our independence,” Kosiniak-Kamish argued.
“The paper will find how we can build the economical sovereignty of Poland, where there are gaps in the supply strategy and in which areas we can effort to replace abroad national co-operators,” said Konrad Gołota, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of State Acts. "I hope, however, that not only the study will be created, but the full doctrine of the Polish state's action in this area," said Kosiniak-Kamish.
