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Developing Methodologies for Faster Defence Indigenisation: Opportunities for Indian SMEs

2024; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-981-99-7445-0_12

2195-4364

Anup Chawan, Hari Vasudevan,

Defense, Military, and Policy Studies

The Indian military base is in the process of rapid modernisation and various methodologies to achieve it have been successfully initiated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). India is transforming its defence manufacturing capabilities by putting into action G2G collaborations positively. The 'Make in India' initiative has been globally recognised today. Indigenisation has been widely acknowledged and executed by many leading defence companies in India, like DRDO, Larsen and Toubro, MKU, Mahindra Defence Systems, Bharat Forge Limited, Tata Advanced System Limited, Ashok Leyland, etc. SMEs in India have also supported this drive up to a certain extent. However, to achieve complete indigenisation and 'Make for World', SMEs have a major role to play. In order to provide further momentum to this, this study strongly pitches two methodologies to expedite the process of indigenisation. The methodologies emphasise creating synergy between apex industry associations and other industry associations, thereby providing more opportunities for SMEs to enter the defence market. These proposed methodologies are expected to help the decision/policymakers to expand the indigenisation process at a faster rate. A supporting framework has been established further to deepen the approach towards proposed methodologies. The study is expected to further expand and encourage discussions on faster indigenisation. Finally, the study concludes with future research directions to support combat services.