Since August 2022, Emmanuel Chiva, 53, has headed the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA), this service of more than 10,000 people, half of whom are engineers, responsible for coordinating, in conjunction with the armies, all French armament programs. As such, he is one of the main players in the implementation of the“war economy” desired by the President of the Republic since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In an interview with the « Monde »it reveals the actions taken to remove the “bottlenecks” in the defense industries.
