Innovation of Defense Technology Audit to Support Self-Reliant National Defense Industry

Indonesia must be able to develop defense technology capacity, which depends on the ability to strengthen the national defense industries. The role of a technology audit is crucial for the advancement of the Indonesia defense industry to provide a holistic assessment of product quality of the domestic defense industry. It is important to understand that technology audits play a role in all areas from the start to the end of the life cycle of defense equipment, especially the main weapon system. However, Indonesia still does not have the specific tools of auditing technology to develop defense technology in line with the characteristics of the country's defense system. On the other hand, technology audits process is expected to bring out the transparency and benchmarks as technological advances comparison owned by the Indonesia defense industry to be in the Global Supply Chain Through the result of the Defense Technology Audit, the stakeholders will get systematic maps of the defense industry's capabilities, development and production capacity according to the availability of resources and objectives to be achieved. This research aims to support and accelerate the process of developing defense technology towards the self-reliant of the national defense industry through innovation in the field of technology audits. Furthermore, the innovations presented in this paper provide ideas and designs to form the basis of conceptual design to produce technology audit instruments for defense products. The research will describe various aspects that influence the defense technology audit process which will develop based on secondary data, such as prevailing policies and supporting literature elaborate with the tools of Technology Readiness Level and Manufacturing Readiness Level.