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