a socially significant area, it is logical to assume 
that the provision of services within its borders is 
a socially significant process”. 
 
Thus,  the  legislator  indirectly  allows  the 
implementation  of  public-private  partnership 
projects  in  the  security  and  defense  area. 
However,  there  are  currently  a  number  of 
specific  activities  outside  the  legal  field  of 
public-private  partnership:  security,  detective 
work,  intelligence,  military  consulting,  law 
enforcement,  counterintelligence,  anti-terrorist 
activities,  etc.  At  the  same  time,  the  security 
conditions in which is Ukraine now, require an 
urgent  change  in  the  political  and  legal 
circumstances  in  these  areas  (Markieieva  & 
Rozvadovskyi, 2021, p. 11). 
 
With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of 
the  Russian  Federation  on  the  territory  of 
Ukraine, there was a big problem with the lack of 
weapons, including drones. At the same time, it 
gave  impetus  to  the  formation  of  new  private 
enterprises, which not only meet the linear needs 
of  the  security  and  defense  sectors,  but  also 
create innovative high-precision products.  
 
More than 200 companies producing drones of 
various types are already operating in Ukraine. 
Thanks to State programs and charitable funds, 
most of the contracted drones were manufactured 
in  Ukraine  –  "Kazhan",  R-18,  "Vampir", 
Punisher  and  others  (Honcharova  & 
Danishevska, 2023). Many more both the name 
and  the  development  itself  remain  classified. 
Startups  in  this  field  can  be  conventionally 
divided into two groups: 
 
hardware, for example, drones, anti-drone guns, 
tactical  headphones,  communication  systems, 
etc.;  
software:  battlefield  management  systems, 
gunnery  software,  training  modules,  cyber 
security  systems,  and  more  (Soroka,  2022; 
Kravchenko & Prudkyi, 2023).  
 
One of the few examples of cooperation between 
public and private partners in the field of national 
security is  the Airlogix official website  (2023) 
project, whose team first developed and created 
reconnaissance drones "Gor" for ground troops. 
Thanks to State programs, the  initiative of  the 
Ministry  of  Digital  Transformation  and  the 
UNITED24  fund,  the  company  was  able  to 
receive a state order for the production of such 
drones. And although the collaboration was not 
carried out through public-private partnerships, 
but rather through the State order, this example 
clearly demonstrates that the public and private 
sectors can successfully implement projects even 
in extreme conditions. 
 
It  should  be  understood  that  scientific  and 
technical  cooperation  is  becoming  an 
increasingly  important  and  effective  form  of 
modern  relations  both  at  the  national  and 
international  level.  Given  the  high  rate  of 
scientific  and  technological  progress,  any 
country, no matter how significant its potential in 
the  field  of  science  and  technology,  can  fully 
satisfy  its  needs  in  advanced  science  and 
technology  for  the  production  of  the  entire 
spectrum  of  scientific  products,  which  is 
constantly changing and improving. Cooperation 
in  creating  high-tech  products  is  the  most 
important part of modern international relations. 
Knowledge, especially science-based, is critical 
to  turning  the  increasingly  complex  problems 
facing  society  into  opportunities  for  more 
sustainable  development,  achieving  the 
Sustainable  Development  Goals,  and  meeting 
other shared commitments (Soroka, 2020). 
 
Accordingly,  within the framework  of  security 
and  defense,  this  model  vividly  describes  the 
synergistic effect of the interaction of the State 
(mostly  the  Ministry  of  Defense),  enterprises 
regardless of ownership, as well as universities, 
which are, on the one hand, places for generation 
and  testing  of  new  ideas,  and  on  the  other  – 
provide  qualified  personnel  to  both  State 
agencies  and  enterprises  creating  innovative 
products or providing services for this area. 
 
However,  regulatory  and  legal  provision  of 
public-private partnership in the field of national 
security  requires  significant  modernization 
(understanding all the complexity of the existing 
mechanism and considering that a country is in a 
state of armed conflict  does  not have  time  for 
long  procedures  existing  in  peacetime). 
Therefore,  the  Government’s  Priority  Action 
Plan for 2023 determined that it is necessary to 
develop and submit for approval a draft law on 
amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On public-
private partnership" to create conditions for the 
development  of  the  defense  and  industrial 
complex  of  Ukraine  in  order  to  stimulate  the 
development of the  defense-industrial  complex 
using mechanisms of public-private partnership 
and military technical cooperation with foreign 
countries for the production of highly effective 
weapons,  military  and  special  equipment, 
meeting  the  needs  of  the  Armed  Forces,  other 
bodies  of  the  security  and  defense  sector, 
increasing  the  export  potential  of  the  defense-
industrial complex, it is necessary to develop and 
submit for approval a draft law on amendments