Image: US Vice President Joe Biden speaking at the 2013 Munich Security Conference.
On Friday 31 January SIPRI will officially launch its data on the top arms-producing and military services companies (the SIPRI Top 100) for 2012 at the Munich Security Conference.
Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, the Director of SIPRI's Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme, together with Pieter Wezeman, Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme, will launch the data at a press event at 12 noon, Central European Time (CET). SIPRI will also host an event on European security issues during the conference.
Full details of the SIPRI Top 100 for 2012 will be available on our website on Friday. If you'd like to be informed of the data as it is released, consider following us on Twitter. In the meantime, take a look at the SIPRI Top 100 for 2012.
Friday's will be the first of three data launches over the coming months ahead of the release of SIPRI Yearbook 2014. On Monday 17 March we will launch our data on international arms transfers in 2013. Then, on Monday 14 April, we will launch our data on world military expenditure in 2013.
The findings of SIPRI Yearbook 2014 will be released in June.
For more information about our data launches, including media inquiries, please contact SIPRI's Communications Director, Stephanie Blenckner.