Abstract:
The Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) is an independent non-profit organization, that supports and promotes the process by which people, skills, technology, equipment, financial and economic resources are shifted from the military or the defense sector towards alternative, civilian purposes. BICC provides documentation, research, information and consulting services on main six issues: defense budget, research and development, defense industry, demobilization and reintegration, base closure and surplus weapon