Defence Acquisition Council accords SDRTactical and NGMMCB for Navy

The SDR is a complex and state of art communication system, which has been indigenously designed and developed by DRDO, BEL and Weapons Electronics System Engineering Establishment (WESEE).

To give a boost to indigenization, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, accorded approval for procurement of indigenous Software Defined Radio (SDRTactical) and Next Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Batteries (Long Range) for the Indian Navy here today.

The SDR is a complex and state of art communication system, which has been indigenously designed and developed by DRDO, BEL and Weapons Electronics System Engineering Establishment (WESEE). It would enable information sharing, collaboration, and situational awareness through high-speed data and secure voice communication with anti-jamming capability.

Next-Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Batteries (NGMMCB, LongRange) would be fitted with supersonic BrahMos surface-to-surface cruise missiles and would be deployed along the coast.  The NGMMCB has been developed and manufactured in India by Indo-Russia Joint Venture Company, M/s BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited.

Both this indigenously developed equipment are of the latest generation and would give a fillip to the Make-in-India initiatives of the Government.

Continuing its focus on ‘Ease of business’ in the defense acquisition, the DAC also approved amendments to the Defence Procurement Procedure 2016.  The amendments are designed to simplify processes under the ‘Make’ category as well as ‘Offsets’.          

This was the first DAC meeting chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh since assuming office.

(With Inputs from PIB)