Armscor is an acquisition agency for the South African Department of Defence and our mandate is to efficiently and effectively provide our Armed Forces with the state of the art defence matériel to conduct safety, security and peacekeeping missions in maintaining the sovereignty of our country and Africa at large. Armscor’s experience in acquisition is spread over six decades, its technology know-how ranges from technology development, development, enhancement, sustainment, as well as disposal of products.

The organisation is providing defence turnkey solutions and its research and development focuses on producing cutting-edge technology products. Armscor prides itself on maintaining high-quality international standards through rigorous testing and evaluation processes on all its technology management projects.

Armscor is committed to driving creativity and innovation in collaboration with its strategic partners. The organisation also provides marketing support to the South African Defence Industry (SADI).defence technology, research, development, analysis, test and evaluation requirements of thecontinuing to optimally serve the Department of Defence.

Armscor pledges commitment to the following values:

• Leading by example – we lead by example and are role models for excellence
• Results driven – we go that extra mile to achieve results timeously
• Customer focus – our customers are the reason for our existence and we are therefore always endeavour to delight them by exceeding their expectations
• Care and respect for others – we foster diversity, value our people and their contributions and treat them equitably, fairly and with dignity, care and respect
• Excellence – we strive for excellence in all we do
• Teamwork – we take joint responsibility through teamwork
• Integrity – we adhere to the highest standards of conduct and moral behaviour, and maintain the highest level of ethics in all our actions