The inefficiency of the national security system is one of the biggest threats to Ukraine's national security. The strategic planning in the field of security and defense has been developed to identify the means, including the future structure of forces, which would allow the institutions of the defense and security sector to deal with potential future threats effectively. The purpose of this study is development of theoretical and practical measures to increase the effectiveness of strategic management of national security processes based on goal setting, forecasting, and planning in the context of informatization of society. The object of study there is a process of forming the state system of strategic planning of national security of Ukraine. The relevance of this study is due to the need for legal regulation and improvement of the state system of strategic planning of national security of Ukraine. To achieve the goal of the study special scientific methods of legal knowledge were used. The results of the analysis showed that ensuring national security must rely on the principle of systematization, which means that the security and defense sector of Ukraine is considered as a single object of forecasting and planning. This study substantiates the main directions of systemic reform of the security and defense sector, which have been carried out in Ukraine to ensure the protection of the constitutional order, sovereignty, territorial integrity of the state in the face of armed aggression. The priorities should be implemented through key tasks, such as the establishment of a comprehensive strategic analysis of military threats to Ukraine's national security, coordination of intelligence activities, development of joint intelligence capabilities of the defense forces to obtain complete and reliable warning information for timely decision-making guaranteeing the military security of the state.
Keywords: national security, state system, strategic planning, national security strategy, threats to the public administration system, informatization of society.
