This text details the technical procedures used in the construction of a panel data base of public servants and employees and military personnel working in the public administrations of Brazilian States. Six sets of procedures are presented. The first set deals with the extraction of the raw...

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments mobilized scientists to help them design, implement and evaluate policies. These scientists analysed the available scientific evidence and worked to incorporate it into policies, being in this way an essential interface between governments and...

This paper aims to offer a panoramic view of the international performance of Brazilian defense sector. Based on an exploratory study from a new dataset, our goal is to analyze both the international performance of the Brazilian defense sector and the country's foreign military missions in the...

This paper aims to examine the adequacy of the Brazilian budget expenditures in the national defense function to the national needs of this public good provision. The lack of indicators allowing to measuring the effectiveness of spending in terms of the National Defense Policy is remarked. For...

This paper discusses different ways to obtain military technology, examining: the autonomous development; the cooperative development in international governmental level; the cooperative development in international business; and technology transfer. For that, the article presents the demand for...

Over the last decade, the defense industry has consistently obtained relevance on the agenda of public policies of the Brazilian government, among which it is worth highlighting the National Defense Industry Policy (2005), the National Defense Strategy (2008), and the Greater Brazil Plan (2011)....

In this work, it is pointed out that the demand scenario of military means have been suffering from the influence of electronics, such as in the case of basic technology. In this context, there are four ways to make contemporary war: robotics, automation, systemic and cybernetics. It is shown...

This article examines the world military expenditures in the period 1991-2009, based on an exploratory analysis about the institutional and economic factors that affected the defense budgets in the countries with the largest military expenditures in the world. Furthermore, there is a comparative...

Space activities have been fundamental for defense, communications and meteorology sectors - as well as for observation and positioning operations and for daily life activities. The initial purpose of this paper is to detail the main characteristics of the Brazilian Space Program (PEB, in...

In order to prepare and employ naval power and contribute to national defense, the Brazilian Navy, through its programs and projects, seeks to develop means of implementation of naval war operations and actions suitable for its main tasks - sea denial and control, and power projection. A...