The Naval Shipbuilding Directorate (DCN)

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Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN) of France has risen to become Europe's largest naval contractor by virtue of the high technological quality of its products and the size of its shipyard facilities. DCN had a 1997 turnover of 13.2 billion French francs and employs 19,200 people. The shipbuilder's main customer is the French Navy, which accounted for 70% of DCN's business in 1997. The company, nonetheless, maintains a healthy export business to compensate for cuts in French defense spending. Efforts to secure business from export customers have resulted in new orders worth 8.9 billion French francs in 1997.

Strategy & planning, France, Ship Building and Repairing, Shipbuilding & Repair, Direction des Constructions Navales, Article

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"The modernisation of the Swiss Army is our main concern."(Dr. Alfred Markwalder, Swiss Chief of Armaments and Head of the Defence Procurement Agency)(Interview)

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Dr. Markwalder states that the main responsibility is to fulfill tasks assigned by the General Staff. The Army XXI reorganization program is still in progress and the new Army Model is expected to be completed this year.

Switzerland, Equipment and supplies, Interview, Military art and science, Military science, Markwalder, Alfred

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