„The Intelligent Organisation in the Defence Sector” summarises the report made to the national conference on “Smart Defence: National Defence Policy and Defence Investments in the Second Decade of the Twenty first Century,” Plenary session I on “Defence Policy, Capabilities, and Resources.” The conference was organised by the Association of the Officers in the Reserve ‘Atlantic’, <www.atlantic-bg.org/en/>, 29 March 2011, Central Military Club, Sofia. The report examines the fundamental challenges to the management of force development in a complex environment. It then examines the concepts of ‘smart defence’ and the ‘intelligent organisation’ and analyses the challenges of their implementation in the Bulgarian defence establishment.