Ministero della Difesa

The Letter of Intent (LoI) is an agreement signed on July 6, 1998 by France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Sweden in order to facilitate restructuring in the sense of transnational defense industries, guaranteeing government support industry initiatives through the simplification and harmonization of national laws. Perfected by the Framework Agreement (FA) on July 27, 2000, the LoI is responsible for six areas: security of supply, export procedures, information security, technology research, information processing techniques and harmonization of military requirements (HMR).

The HMR Board is concerned with harmonization of military requirements aims to create common operational requirements from which to enable cooperation and develop future systems / equipment with characteristics consistent as possible, allowing the industry to reduce costs of design, development and industrialization of materials and increase the number produced.

The HMR-Support Team (ST), which meets regularly to monitor the results of activities, and the HMR-Board (HMRB) which meets at least once a year to consider and approve the documents and determine, based on ST's recommendations, the guidelines for activities in progress and set future. This well-established and well-structured activities plus the continuous updating and coordination with EDA initiatives to avoid duplication with the same start, but also to search for communities of interest and procedures that facilitate and accelerate the activation of programs at the Agency arising from CST produced by the LoI and taken / offered in the EDA. The environment of LoI can be also an opportunity for the birth and development of specific activities, learned in one virtuous "stronger" and slender can see their actual realization in the field of EDA.

The HMR has studied under the supervision of a Board, the requirements of military interest of the participants through the formation of Cooperative Requirements Teams (CRT), many of whom have completed their studies with the publication of Common Staff Targets (CST).

Authorized HMR Board and Support Team members can access the workspace from the following link: