The federal government presented on Wednesday (12) the investments being made to boost the development of technologies of interest to national sovereignty and defense, such as launchers of rockets, radars and satellites. The funds total R $ 112.9 billion, being R $ 79.8 billion of public resources and R $ 33.1 billion from the private sector.
Projects are linked to Mission 6 of the Program Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB), which completed a year in January and was celebrated today at an event at the Planalto Palace, with the presence of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, who coordinates the NIB, highlighted the expansion of industry export and growth in 2024. “We grew up last year, the general industry 3.1% , the transformation industry, 3.7%, twice the world average. Double the world’s average was the growth of Brazilian industry last year. Exports of the transformation industry totaled $ 189 billion, which was also a record. And also record in creating employment and income for our population, ”he celebrated.
Brasília (DF), 12/02/2025 – Geraldo Alckmin highlighted the growth of industry last year – MARCELO CAMARGO/AGENCY BRAZIL
In the area of defense, according to Alckmin, strategic for the national industry, Brazil exported, by 2024, US $ 1.8 billion, an increase of 22% compared to 2023. In the previous year, exports had added $ 1, 5 billion, a significant growth of 123% compared to 2022.
NIB is an industrial policy with six missions related to the expansion of autonomy, ecological transition and modernization of the industrial park. The program focuses on the sectors of agro -industry, health, Urban Infrastructure, information TechnologyBioeconomics and Defense and aims to boost national development by 2033 with instruments such as subsidies, loans with reduced interest and investment expansion.
In total, the Brazilian industry already has R $ 3.4 trillion in public and private investments announced. Public investment is R $ 1.2 trillion, including Plan Fundamento Mais Production (P+P), NIB financing arm, and related programs, such as the new Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and the Plan Ecological transformation. Already the productive sector announced R $ 2.2 trillion in investments of national production in the coming years.
Sovereignty and defense
Mission 6 alone, presented today, from R $ 79.8 billion in public resources, R $ 42.1 billion have been allocated by 2023 and 2024 and R $ 37.7 billion are available by 2026. Investments include PAC Defense, with R $ 31.4 billion for projects such as the Gripen fighter, the freighter KC-390, armored vehicles, frigates and submarines.
Private investment of R $ 33.1 billion will be divided between the aerospace and defense sectors (R $ 23.7 billion), nuclear (R $ 8.6 billion) and security and others (R $ 787 million). During the event, Embraer signed a funding letters of R $ 331 million with the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and R $ 2.1 billion with Finep – a public project financing company linked to the Ministry of Science , Technology and innovation. The latter is for the acquisition of up to 16 Embraer aircraft by a US airline.
FINEP also invests in strategic projects, such as the Brazilian multipurpose reactor and takeoff rocket for hypersonic vehicles, with R $ 4.2 billion already invested and forecast of another R $ 331 million.
Mission 6 aims to strengthen the productive chains of satellites, launchers and radars vehicles, defined as priority based on the existence of built local capacities, potential for generating high technological exports and qualified job generation.
The goal is to reach 55% of domain of critical defense technologies by 2026, and 75% by 2033. Currently, Brazil dominates 42.7% of critical technologies, defined from the list of 39 strategic research, development and development projects and Innovation.
