Total of Php41.2 billion worth of
upgrade projects to the Philippine military has been awarded and completed in
the first 3 years of Aquino Administration. The data can be acquired from the
DND Department of National Defense.
The total amount represents the initial
36 projects to the DND in respond to the Aquino’s action on the Philippine
Military Modernization.
In detail 12 projects went to
Army other 4 projects to the Air Force. The Philippine Navy got 16 projects
this includes frigates BRP Ramon Alcaraz and BRP Gregorio del Pilar. Other two
projects wento to the Government Arsenal and Armed Forces Headquarters.
“We are increasingly changing the
capabilities of our Armed Forces” different committees given authorities
to conduct bidding and awards are doing its best in order for us to acquire the
right supply that can support our military needs.
Way back 1995 when the congress
passed the Philippine Armed Forces Modernization Act, this enables the military
to modernize its capabilities to battle threats inside and outside country, in
15 years the government allocated a total of Php331 billion pesos.
Lack of funds and changing priorities
for those who are elected in the leadership was the main hindrance for the
modernization act not to be moving forward, as a result “Philippine Military becomes the most
poorly equipped government agency in the region.”
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