INDO-US HIGH TECHNOLOGY CO-OPERATION GROUP MEETING

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INDO-US HIGH TECHNOLOGY CO-OPERATION GROUP
MEETING

• WASHINGTON DC
• 18-19 November 2004

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MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRODUCTION
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
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THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

• Headed by the Defense Secretary
• Deals with the Integrated Defense Staff
• the three services various inter-service
  organizations
• Responsible for defense budget, defense policy,
  matters relating to Parliament, defense
  cooperation with foreign countries and
  coordination of all activities

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THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRODUCTION

• Headed by the Secretary Defense Production
• Deals with matters pertaining to defense
  production, indigenisation of imported stores,
  equipment spares
• Planning control of departmental production
  units of the Ordnance Factory Board the Defense
  Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs)

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The Department of Defense Production oversees the
following

• 39 Ordnance Factories
• 8 Defense Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs)
• - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
• - Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)
• - Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
• - Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL)
• - Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL)
• - Garden Reach Shipbuilders Engineers Ltd.
• - Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
• - Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (MIDHANI)

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• Quality Assurance
• Directorate of Standardization
• Defense Exhibition Organization
• Indigenisation
• Private Sector participation in Defense
  Production

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THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

• Headed by the Secretary Defense R D, who is also
  the Scientific Advisor to the Defense Minister
  Director General of Defense Research
  Development Organization (DRDO)
• Advise the government on scientific aspects of
  military equipment
• Formulation of research development plans for
  equipment used by the services

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Defense Research Development Organization
(DRDO)

• Has a Vision of
• Empowering India with cutting-edge defense
  technology
• And a Mission of
• Self-reliance in critical defense technologies
  and systems by indigenisation and innovation
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• Equipping the Armed Forces with
  state-of-the-art weapon systems and equipment
• In partnership with
• The Industry, the Academia and other R D
  centers in India and abroad

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Over the past 30 years of DRDO activity, a number
of systems have been developed and are in use
with the countrys armed forces. Some of the
products are listed below - Field Guns
Mortars - Small Arms and Ammunition - Armament
s - Radars - Sonars - Electronic Warfare
Systems - Digital Communication
Network - Combat Vehicles - Bridges other
Engineering Support - Advanced Materials
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SOME OF THE MAJOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPED BY DRDO ARE
- Main battle tank - Light Combat
Aircraft - Torpedoes - Anti Submarine Warfare
Systems - Lakshya Aerial Target System -
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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Work is also in progress in the development of
major sub-systems and technologies
- Aero engines - Multimode Radar - Composites
and armour - Micro-electronics - Night Vision
Systems - Signal and Data Networks - Simulators
- Artificial Intelligence Systems
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LABORATORIES IN DEFENCE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
ORGANISATION

• Aeronautical - 6
• Armament - 8
• Combat Vehicles
• Engineering Group - 4
• Computer Science - 6
• Electronics Instrumentation - 7
• Life Sciences - 8
• Materials - 5
• Naval Systems - 3

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Quickening the Pace of Technology Advance
The Ideal Bond

• Mature Technologies
• Product Orientation

R D
Academia
Industry

• Applied R D
• Product Upgrade

• Active Industry Participation
• Goal- / Product Oriented Research

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DRDO Efforts for Industry Synergy

• Defense Public Sector Units
• DRDO PSUs initiatives
• Program / project reviews
• Multi tier management boards
• DRDO representatives in PSU boards
• Private Industry
• Interaction through programs / projects
• DRDO industry associations initiative

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Landmarks in DRDO-Industry Interface

• Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)
• Multi Barrel Rocket System Pinaka
• Main Battle Tank - Arjun
• Sarvatra Multi-Hop Assault Bridging System
• Bridge Layer Tank (BLT) T-72
• Mat Fording CL 70 (MGS)

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Enhanced Industry Participation

• Involve industry as prime production agency
• from the beginning
• Industry to take up LSP orders
• Firm commitment from user
• Explore export opportunities to increase
• volume of production
• R D support of DRDO and academia throughout
• product life cycle

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Private Sector Participation in Defense Production

• The objective is to pool capital, manpower
  resources and industrial infrastructure available
  outside the public sector facilitate
  development of full-fledged Defense industrial
  complex in the country to achieve self-reliance.
• In May 2001, GOI decided to open Defense
  Production to Indian Private Sector with FDI up
  to 26 subject to licensing
• In Jan 2002, the Department of Industrial Policy
  Promotion (DIPP) issued guidelines for
  licensing production of Arms Ammunition

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Present Scenario

• 39 applications have been received from private
  companies for manufacture of various types of
  Defense equipment
• 18 Letters of Intent/Industrial Licenses have
  been issued by the DIPP
• Proposals submitted by Indian industry to MOD for
  effective amalgamation of Indian private sector
  in the planning acquisition process

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Defense Industry Partnership Meets

• Defense-Industry Partnership Meets are organized
  at regular intervals to share information with
  the private industry regarding the requirements
  of the Defense Production agencies and the
  different wings of the armed forces to help the
  private industry to prepare proper investment
  plans
• In these meets, various Defense Establishments
  namely DGQA, DRDO, Ordnance Factory Board also
  participate

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New Initiatives taken by MOD, GOI

• Constitution of Defense Acquisition Council
  headed by the Defense Minister
• - Accord in principle approval of capital
  acquisitions in long term perspective plan
  and for each capital acquisition program
• The decisions of the Council are to be
  implemented by the following three Boards
• - Defense Procurement Board
• - Defense Production Board
• - Defense Research Development Board

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• A Defense Acquisition Wing headed by Special
  Secretary (Acquisition) has been created to
  assist the Defense Procurement Board
• Defense Technology Council (DTC) has been
  constituted under the Chairmanship of the Defense
  Minister to provide guidance and supervision of
  growth promotion of research, development and
  production related to Defense Technologies
• DTC will assist Defense Acquisition Council in
  taking holistic decisions on specific Defense
  Projects related to long term perspective plan

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A Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. Vijay
Kelkar has been constituted by GOI

• To examine make recommendations on changes
  required in the procedure of acquisition/procureme
  nt of Defense equipment to modify it on an
  approach based on Products Strategy
• To suggest modalities for integration of user,
  MOD and the Indian Industry including R D
• To recommend changes required to facilitate
  Ordnance Factories Defense PSUs to assume the
  role of designer and integrator of large defense
  systems.

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THANK YOU
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