The Ministry of Defense is working to strengthen defense facilities based on the National Defense Strategy and the Defense Power Development Plan approved by the Cabinet in December 2022. Of the five-year investment plan of about 4 trillion yen, the project cost of about 1.2 trillion yen will be recorded in fiscal 2024. The budget request for the resilience-related budget for fiscal 2025, the third year, is 857.1 billion yen, up 35.8 percent from the previous year. Hayato Mogo, who was appointed as the Cabinet Office Facilities Supervisor in July, expressed a sense of crisis, saying, "We are facing the most severe and complex security environment in the postwar period," and said, "We look forward to working to improve work efficiency for both contractors and contractors." Show enthusiasm for early project implementation.
Mr. Hayato Mogo
--What are your expectations when you are appointed?
In view of the need to ensure deterrence and response capabilities, I believe it is necessary to strengthen basic defense facilities to ensure that the Self-Defense Forces can fight tenaciously. The three documents related to security ``Many facilities. are aging and measures to prevent deterioration will be taken for the living environment of members '' To increase ammunition production to continue fighting, we will build 130 gunpowder storage buildings in 10 years and 70 buildings in 5 years. . '' We will do this in a concentrated manner for 5 years. ''
-- Optimization projects targeting 283 bases and garrisons nationwide are underway.
"The master plan has been prepared, design and construction are underway. 17 ECI contracts have been signed. The division of roles between the public and private sectors has been reviewed, work efficiency and contractor burden have been improved, costs have been reduced." was reduced and project time was extended. We consider prevention as an advantage. We want to take advantage of this and pave the way for smooth project implementation. We have started to develop master plans in 89 districts.'' The
ECI method will continue to be applied.
``The bases and garrisons were accepted due to our relationship with the local community, so we worked hard to ensure that local companies had the opportunity to receive orders. There were some bases that had difficulty setting up specifications at the time of ordering. There was a shortage of engineers in both our company and private companies, so we decided to use the ECI method in the hope of improving construction coordination, labor savings, and operational efficiency.
We have relaxed the limit on the number of companies in a joint venture and have taken measures such as adding points when including local companies or placing large orders with local companies.
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“(The total project cost) for the reinforcement will exceed 2 trillion yen, half of 4 trillion yen. The estimated requirement is 325.5 billion yen to upgrade existing facilities and 93.2 billion yen to move the headquarters underground, etc. 10.3 billion yen is reserved for disaster countermeasures, 35.8 billion yen is allocated for maintenance of gunpowder storage facilities, and 392.3 billion yen is allocated for construction and design of existing facilities along with the establishment of new units and introduction of new equipment
The Defense Facility Resilience Promotion Consortium has been launched.
I heard that the aim is to contribute to making defense facilities more resilient by reinforcing the knowledge that construction companies have cultivated, as they are important social infrastructures that are the foundation of peace and security. can listen to everyone's opinions and communicate their measures in an easy-to-understand way. It is very beneficial for us to receive opinions through DX, ICT technology and construction know-how. I want to continue to develop.”
(Hayato Moro) Graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1991 and joined the Defense Facilities Agency (now the Ministry of Defense). In 2016, Director of Procurement, Okinawa Defense Agency, in 2018, Director of Facilities Technology, Maintenance Planning Agency, and Director of Kinki-Chubu Defense Agency in 2022, assumed the current position on July 19. Born in Kyoto Prefecture, 58 years old.
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