STRATEGIC GOAL
Our strategic goal is to create the environment that will enable the Ghana Armed Forces through its established Defence Industry companies, engage in Civil-Military Collaboration for Socio-Economic Development projects in addition to its traditional roles, thereby laying the platform for accelerated industrial development and growth in the country.

PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS
The Ministry for Defence has taken positive steps to implement some aspects of the Public Sector Reforms launched by the Government. The military is associated with high level of discipline, positive attitude to work, upholding best practices in professionalism in work ethics and culture. The GAF can infest the citizenry, especially those our noble
institution will interact with, at the work place, with its high level of discipline.
It will also inculcate in Ghanaians the spirit of selfreliance, dedication and commitment to duty as well as imbibe in the workers the spirit of patriotism and nationalistic feeling. Closer interaction between the military and their civilian counterparts is likely to infest the rest of the populace with its positive attitude to work. The GAF is committed to create the environment for people to depart from the “business as usual” concept among most employees by encouraging innovation in the work place as well as rewarding local initiatives. Performance based reward system
will be instituted in all the factories to be established under DIHOC. CIMICSED will transform the efforts of the military into tangibles which can be quantified by the populace. We believe these projects will tend to positively
impact on the effective and efficient management of threats to socio-economic and human security challenges in the country.


ESTABLISHMENT OF DIHOC
The Military High Command in consultation with the Ministry of Defence decided to establish a new department at the General Headquarters known as the Defence Industries Department (DID). This Department is to primarily, give strategic direction to the Defence Industries Holding Company Limited (DIHOC). This new company is the vehicle that will
carry out all the commercial production of selected items of strategic value to the military in particular
and the nation in general. The projects undertaken will dove-tail into the established manufacturing industries set up by DIHOC. The various projects to be undertaken will be in line with the CIMICSED Concept. DIHOC is solely a Ghana Armed Forces initiative and it is run by the Ghana Armed Forces. It has no direct relationship to Government. It is a private commercial entity. The company is expected to be the driving force and engine of the CIMICSED concept and is
believed that it will additionally provide security of tenure for this intervention by the Ghana Armed Forces.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIHOC AND GAF
DIHOC has been formed to separate these socioeconomic activities we are engaging in from the core business of the Ghana Armed Forces. It is precisely to answer this need that the Defence industries Department (DID) has been established to provide that framework for the Ghana Armed Forces. In order to direct this effort appropriately, correctly and more effectively, DIHOC is expected to serve primarily the needs of the military. Secondly, the company is expected to produce enough to meet the needs of local market. Ultimately, the company will venture into the external market, starting from the sub-region. A seven Member Board for the Defence Industries Company (DIHOC) of Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has been inaugurated in Accra. The inaugurated board is composed of the following; the Deputy Minister for Defence as the Chairman; the Chief of the Defence staff; the Chief Director, MOD; the Director General
(DID) General Headquarters; Director Veterans Affairs; (MOD), a Private Business Man and the Director
General Legal Services, GHQ as Member/Secretary. The role of the DID is mainly to provide that linkage with the Ghana Armed Forces. Therefore the Military High Command is not involved in the day-to-day running of the company. The DID is therefore the Ghana Armed Forces institution that provides the policy direction, guidance and coordination that are
required to ensure that DIHOC remains focused in its activities and mission. The relationship between the
Ghana Armed Forces and DIHOC is therefore one of policy direction, strategic guidance and coordination.


LEGAL MATTERS
The establishment of DIHOC Ltd conforms to all the necessary legal requirements. Its establishment has been duly approved by the Armed Forces Council. All legal issues relating to company formation and operation have been addressed. Therefore the Ghana Armed Forces has the mandate to pursue this initiative. Additionally, this endeavour conforms to provisions of the 1992 Constitution. Chapter 7 Section 210 (3) of the 1992 Constitution lends credence to the proposition for the Ghana Armed Forces to engage in developmental projects in the country, thus. The holding company, DIHOC, has therefore been formed not only to separate its activities from the core business of the Armed Forces, but also to give the manufacturing entities to be established the legal status and latitude to operate effectively within the corporate environment. The company's Logo is the Adinkra symbol – “PEMPAMSIE”, meaning “Readiness, Steadfastness and Hardiness”. The logo fits various principles that underpin military operations. The strategic goal of the DIHOC is therefore to create the environment that will enable the Ghana Armed Forces to collaborate with the civil sector towards the socio-economic development of our dear country. The DIHOC is therefore to provide critical logistics needs of the Ghana Armed Forces whilst at the same time be vanguard of the nation's industrialization drive through its research and development.


EXPERTISE AND OUTCOMES
Our vision is to establish an industrial command that will focus on provision of the critical logistic needs of the Armed Forces, whilst at the same time be at the vanguard of the country's industrialisation drive and also take the necessary actions that will ensure an effective management of any emerging or prevailing social, socio-economic and human security threats in the country.