The new Security and Defense Innovation Center marked with its opening a new era of technological development and modernization in the fields of security and defense.
This center is attached to the Military Cyber Security Unit, another major project for defense in the digital world, with a key role in the fight against cyber threats and the protection of our information systems, established thanks to the support of the USA.
Prime Minister Edi Rama visited the Center’s new premises, together with Defense Minister Niko Peleshi and senior leaders of the Armed Forces.
“To respond to new challenges and to respond to this new level of commitment that we have based on our vision for the Armed Forces of Albania 2030, a new military strategy and a new long-term development plan of the Armed Forces are now ready and will be submitted to the legislative process in the Assembly. While we are also preparing the new platform for the development of the military industry. A platform that will be included it in the entire legislative body of the Republic of Albania, starting a new wave of investments in the defense industry, making Albania a country that not only consumes what the taxpayers give in terms of defense, but also which through the defense industry makes profits that circle back to the function of defense and through its military industry, manages to supply local productions, of course, in cooperation with large, serious enterprises of allied countries.” – said the Prime Minister in the greeting of the occasion.
Among other things, Prime Minister Rama emphasized that: “Our ambition is that within 2030 we will have military exports of the brand “Made in Albania” and on the other hand, of course, that our army will begin to be equipped with military equipment of the brand “Made in Albania”. For this we are lucky because, even though we are a small country, we have great allies. The most advanced countries in the defense industry today in the democratic world are, not only willing, but also interested in seeing their enterprises develop in cooperation with the Albanian state and on the other hand, our whole new approach in terms of these collaborations, not only in the field of defense, is that the state must be a partner, the state must be a shareholder, and from all these processes of economic development, the state must take its share”.
The new Security and Defense Innovation Center will strengthen national capacities in the field of security and defense through the implementation of innovative projects and the integration of advanced technologies, as well as to promote the development of an ecosystem of innovation in security and protection.
