Further expansion of our business with the Swiss Armed Forces
RUAG’s mission, to make a significant contribution to the sovereign security of Switzerland, remains at the core of our services.
As technology partner of the Swiss Armed Forces, RUAG is pursuing a strategy that aims to strengthen this role
and systematically addresses future requirements. In light of the increasingly tense global security situation, in particular due to the conflicts in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, our mission has become ever more important. The expectations are clear: Even in times of crisis, RUAG must continue to provide robust as well as reliable services and proactively respond to future challenges and threat scenarios.
Against this backdrop, RUAG consistently advanced the development of the overall organization in the year under review in order to ensure that the Armed Forces can be provided with services in every situation and existing know-how is maintained and expanded in a targeted manner. However, the company requires favorable political framework conditions, for example with regard to strategic investments such as the one in Nitrochemie, a chemistry technology company. Political support is required in order to make the investments necessary to maintain the existing share and expand security-relevant production capacities.
“Route de RUAG”
RUAG’s mission is to ensure that the Swiss Armed Forces and other emergency and security organizations can comprehensibly carry out their tasks at all times. To guarantee this in the long term, RUAG created the so called “Route de RUAG” based on the strategic guideline and made it available to all line managers. The visual strategy map helps them to understand the strategy, to identify with it and to implement it effectively. The guideline aims to ensure that RUAG fulfills its role as a technology partner, strengthens its third-party business, promotes a sustainable and innovative organization and guarantees operational excellence. RUAG has successfully communicated the refined strategic direction and the underlying company values to its line managers in a series of workshops. Additional strategic training workshops for the other employees will be held by the second quarter of 2025. This way, RUAG creates a shared understanding of the strategic change and a path to the future – in line with its future projects.
Focus on innovation activities
The complexity of military systems and the importance of networked information flows are increasing. Against
this background, RUAG not only consolidates its position as the main link between the Swiss Armed Forces and
the independent industry, but also places special emphasis on encryption technology. With the acquisition
of CyOne Security Ltd, RUAG has strengthened its expertise in this area and is now ideally positioned to address and promote future needs even more effectively. In addition, RUAG realigned its innovation activities to focus on promising areas. The dissolution of the RUAG Innovation Organisation (RIO) makes it possible to push ahead with future-oriented projects in the areas of mobile secure communication and cybersecurity more consistently and to also provide comprehensive know-how to other security-relevant institutions.
Adaptation of the organizational structure
“Structure follows strategy” – For RUAG, it is absolutely essential that the organizational structure optimally supports the implementation of the company strategy. Only in this way can the longterm goals be achieved. Accordingly, RUAG worked intensively on its future organizational structure and made substantial progress during the year under review. RUAG will, therefore, be able to implement its new structure in the second quarter of 2025, enabling the company to act in an even more customer-oriented, efficient and transparent manner.
On the one hand, the new structure allows RUAG to effectively implement its strategy at the operational level. On the other hand, it helps the employees to work together in a trusting and respectful manner and to promote versatility in the company. In connection with its strategy, RUAG is striving for a strong company culture based on open and transparent communication, a culture of constructive criticism and a strong sense of loyalty.