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Saudi Arabia issues business continuity guide for military industries
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Military Industries issued a business continuity guide for companies in the military industries sector.
The guide is designed to help them keep essential operations and services running during accidents and disruptions.
It follows international practices and the ISO 22301:2019 standard, using a cycle of planning, implementation, checking and correction.
It asks companies to assess risks to vital activities, identify the effects of interruptions and set recovery needs.
They are also encouraged to develop alternatives and plans, and test them regularly.
The guide aims to improve companies’ readiness and ability to recover while supporting the sector’s development and localization under Saudi Vision 2030.
It complements the authority’s existing risk-management guide, and no further steps or deadlines were specified.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Military Industries launched a guide to business continuity management for the military industries sector.
The guide is intended to help companies keep vital operations and services running during incidents and disruptions.
It covers designing and implementing continuity systems, supply-chain resilience, and ways to prepare for and recover from disruptions.
The guide follows the international standard ISO 22301:2019 and its plan, do, check and act cycle.
The authority said the guide accompanies its risk-management guide as part of an effort to improve companies’ readiness and resilience.
- Who
- Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Military Industries.
- What
- It launched a business continuity management guide for the military industries sector.
- When
- The launch was reported on October 23, 2026.
- Where
- Saudi Arabia.
- Why
- To help sector companies maintain vital operations and services through incidents and disruptions, and improve their preparedness and resilience.
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- Issuing body
- Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Military Industries
- Standard
- ISO 22301:2019
- Framework
- Plan, do, check and act
- Related guide
- The authority’s risk-management guide