Key Aspects of Innovation in Defence Sector

• Innovation reduces the risk of Inadequate Investments.

• Innovation also reduces the time lag between ideation and delivery of final military products.
• Innovation is Disruptive and incremental in nature.
• For defence Sector, innovation should be disruptive, in a way, that it should change, radically, how military
departments and military equipment manufacturers operates.
• For this to happen many enablers (Technical and others) and a new paradigm are required to reach a level of
performance.
• By the means of capabilities based incremental innovation, departments can enhance or improve the usage of
existing products, services, processes, methods to reach to a level which they will to be at in future.
• Innovation in Defence sector provides a strategic driven approach.
• One of the most important aspect of innovation in defence sector is that developing a culture that is ‘innovative
by instinct’.
• Another aspect which is essential is the support of Authorities
ICT: Development in Information and Communication in the Defense Sector.

• India has been giving significant importance to the ICT In the Land, Water, and Air defense system.

• Government’s Initiative for developing ICT in the defense sector.

• In Feb 2018, the Ministry of defense created a multi-stakeholder task force meeting to boost the
implementation of advanced ICT in the three arms of the defense sectors.

• According to the Union Minister of Defense, Mr.Rajanath Singh :

• India’s Goal in ICT defense sector is:

• Internal procurement and export, which have total worth of US$ 26 Billion by 2025.
• Additional investment of nearly US$ 10 Billion.
• Generate employment level by creating the employment around 2-3 million people.
DefExpo 2020

• It is the flagship event of the government of India, led by the Union Minister of Defense, Mr. Rajanath
Singh, which is held in UP first time.

• Main theme of the event is Digital Transformation of Defense.

• This event shows that the government is keen to bring the domestic investors and international investors to
invest in ICT in the defense sector.

• Main aim of the government wants to implement AI technology in the defense sector.

• According to PM Modi, India is set to target 130 billion dollars spend in the next five years to implement the
AI technology in defense sector.

• This includes the defense hub set up to all over the country and promote the startup's environment in the
ICT defense sector.
Major MOUs

• Major MOUs sign with South Korean companies which include Hanwha Defense, which planning to set up ICT defense
manufacturing units in India, which deals with 2.5 Billion dollars’ worth.

• For the speed-up of the implementation of the ICT procurement, Union Minister of Defense, Mr. Rajanath Singh also met
with South Korea’s defense minister Jeong Kyeong-doo in New Delhi earlier.

• Other defense manufacturing Fortune 500 companies also participated to show its ICT defense products, which include
Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Thale, Dassault Aviation.

• Companies showed their ICT defense products in AI-based Drone, UAV Solution to the navy, autonomous robots, ground
vehicles, advanced military cyber operation, landmine detection.

• Many India based organizations also took part in this event.

• BEML and Goa Shipyard introduce AI-based health care diagnosis of armed force and to build a modern geo-fencing
security system.
Company Company ICT Area
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited   Israel Aerospace Industries and   Manufacturing UAVs
Dynamatic Technologies Limited

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited  Elbit Systems’ ISTAR Division  Manufacturing of Vertical Take-Off
and Landing (VTOL) for marine.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited  Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur IT support projects in the field of
‘Cloud Seeding’.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited  JSC Rosoboronexport  Rotor communication engines

BEML  Prognosys Medical Systems Private Manufacturing of AI based Medical

Limited, Bangalore Health and Diagnostic Systems on
High Mobility Platform for Military
applications.

BEML Limited Si2 Microsystems Private Limited, electronic fencing and surveillance
Bangalore systems.
Bharat Forge Limited DASTAN Corp., Kyrgyzstan  AI-based e-geo-surveillance
Adani Defence  Airbus India  Aerospace and civil aviation sector.
Modernisation:

Modernization Budget of Indian Armed Forces:

Modernization Defense based on ICT

100000
90650
90000
81422
80000

70000

60000

50000

40000 39031
36365

30000 25999 25620

22951 22106
20000

10000

0
Army Navy Air Force Total

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 ROLE OF ICT IN DEFENCE

ICT Plays a very important role in order to strengthen our defence mechanism where it is in the form of
developing satellite, Missiles, Network-centric battlefield systems or the present day drones.With the
advancement in the ICT they are also planning to build killer robots which will replace humans on the
battlefield.The responsibility of developing India’s defense technology is assigned to the DRDODRDO- Defence
Research and Development Organization.DRDO is a network of more than 50 laboratories located in different
cities of the country.The DRDO specializes in the following fields −
•Aeronautical Engineering
•Electronics
•Armaments
•Engineering system
•Combat vehicles
•Missiles
•Advanced computing and simulation
•Life science
•Special materials
•Agriculture
•Training, etc.
They develop various types of missiles, some of them are-Air-to-Air MissileSurface-to-AirAir-to-SurfaceSurface-
to-SurfaceUnderwater
Industry
• Lockheed Martin's
Majority of Lockheed Martin’s business deals with the US federal government agencies and the US Department of Defence,
since it is an aerospace and global security company. In addition to that , all the five branches of the US armed forces are
provided military and rotary-wing aircraft by Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin Company) along with military services and
commercial operators in over 40 nations. The remaining portion of their business comprises of international government and
commercial sales of products, services and platforms. 
• Boeing
 Boeing Defense India (BDI) was established in 2017. It is a local operating entity and helps Boeing expand its participation
with India to deliver advanced capability and readiness to India’s military forces. It had developed a supplier base in India
which unifies into global supply chain of Boeing.
• BAE SYSTEMS
British Aerospace or BAE Systems, helps protect people , national security along with keeping critical information and
infrastructure safe with the help of their advance defense technology. Employing trained workforce of around 85,800 people in
over 40 countries,they work remotely with their local partners by providing technology, skills and knowledge and supporting
economic development. They keep looking for new ways to provide their customers with cut-throat edge across various
zones such as maritime, land, air and cyber.
Future Innovations in ICT in defence

• India is building its own precision-guided missiles, anti-satellite weapons, advanced intelligence, robotic
warfare, surveillance equipment and autonomous systems under the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
• Self-made ammunitions, robotic and unmanned combat vehicles, AI and cloud computing, quantum computing
technology and hypersonic are the reasons India is contemplating state of the art warfare strategies.
• Modern warfare techniques such as network centric warfare, scouting campaigns, littoral war-fighting
(unmanned and autonomous) systems, use of high-definition radars, drone detecting lasers, smart infra-red
seeker, smart missiles and modern electronic warfare
• The real change here is the transition from an ammunition-based, to a self-directed energy weapons based AI
network-centric model. 
•  So would hybrid, space and cyber warfare now challenge the centuries-old postulations of ‘Just War’? Are the
developments in Indian Defence sector enough to protect its borders and at the same time support the domestic
innovative players in this sector?