Acquisition and development methodology of aircraft, systems and materials of the Brazilian Air Force

In Command of the Air Force, of the Ministry of Defense of Brazil, there is a document that establishes the procedure for acquisition or development, as the planning and implementation of the phases and the main events in the life cycle of systems and equipment, aircraft and its systems onboard. This document, the DCA (Guideline of the Air Command) 400-6, is a sequence of events or activities that have the flexibility and integration as features and is organized into nine stages: design, feasibility, definition, development, production, deployment, use, revitalization and deactivation. These phases are divided into sub-phases, and they, in turn, organized in blocks, which are a set of ordered steps to be followed that detail the sub-phases. Thus the whole process of acquisition or development, emerged from an operational need is already pre-defined and clear, allowing for both the primary customer, the Air Force, as for suppliers, companies in the aerospace industry, a profile of all necessary steps and requirements to fill the need detected.