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The scope of the offset Policy Guidelines has been expanded to include Civil Aerospace, Internal Security and Training within the ambit of eligible products and services. The List of the Eligible Offsets includes most aspects of  the Civil Aerospace, including ac, both fixed wing and rotary, air frames, air engines, ac components, avionics, ac design & engg services, ac material and technical publications, flying and technical training institutions. And a wide range of weapons and services for counter terrorism for ‘internal security’.

Click http://mod.nic.in/dpm/welcome.html  to read Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP 2011) including Revised Offsets Policy, Defence Production Policy 2011 (DPrP 2011) and Supplement to Defence Procurement Manual 2009. 

All this will provide wider range of offset opportunities, and help  build the indigenous capability.

The philosophy of approach toward military technology is based on purpose, vision, relevance, efficiency and performance. Being Indian in content is what needs to be added to the above! Sixty four years down the line, four battle engagements later, our defence technology story is one of unexpected miracles and unacceptable failures. It is in above context that a holistic understanding of the foundation on which the edifice of the defence industrial base of India needs to be progressively pillared becomes imperative?

FDI in Defence Industry is permissible up to 26%, under Government route subject to Industrial license under the Industries (Development & Regulation) Act 1951. Licence applications will be considered and licences given by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, in consultation with Ministry of Defence. Cases involving FDI will be considered by the FIPB and licences given by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion in consultation with MOD.

'Our defence forces require timely and cost effective acquisition of defence equipment to enable them to meet any challenge to the country's security. The emerging security scenario is very challenging. Nobody can say what will happen in some of our neighbouring areas. India will have to be fully prepared, our armed forces will have to be fully prepared to meet any challenge from any quarter and they must be able to protect every inch of Indian territory' avers the Defence Minister. 

Click to read the Journals:

1.  http://www.idsa.in/jds/3_1_2009   Defence Offsets, Jan 2009.

The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delbi, is a registered society. It is considered to be the premier strategic and security studies Think Tank in India. The Institute is funded by the Indian Ministry of Defence, but functions autonomously.

The Week in Review (TWIR) covers areas of strategic interests to India. Please Click the link for TWIR, http://idsa.in/system/files/TWIR_1_1_2012.pdf 

Asia Defence News is a monthly print-media Journal which articulates Asian point of view  on 'Asian and World Security Affairs'. It is a publication of 'Asia Defence News International'. FreeMarketsDefence.com brings You  the full text of the Asia Defence News online.

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We need to understand China well in order to understand its 'vision' and 'dynamics'. The best way  to enhance understanding on China is through the views reflected by the authorities, media, academia and people of China, as well as from its diaspora and neighbourhood. China News Digest aims to serve this pupose.

Pse Link: http://www.idsa.in/system/files/CND_Issue5.pdf   

TTT Defence & Aerospace Development Company (TSDADC) , a 50:50 JV, based in Tucson/Arizona, USA between Tucson Transatlantic Trade Inc. Holding Group, USA, (www.ttthg.com ) and Svipja Technologies, will support development of JVs, Offsets, TTs, e-Procurement, etc, globally with India focus.

Govt. has mandated to develop an advanced government-wide IT-enabled system, after re-engineering existing business processes where necessary, covering all aspects of government procurement, which may include        development of an e-Government Procurement (e-GP) portal providing links to various stakeholders in the e-GP for services such as registration of vendors, accessing details of procurement made, tenders awarded, tenders  advertised etc. And development of an IT-enabled “exchange or e-Marketplace” linking various Government agencies in need of procurement of goods and services on the one hand and the vendors/service providers and the e-procurement service providers on the other. 

e-Selling & e-Procurement Service Provider(s) (e-SP2) is an Innovative Idea.

In this concept, e-Selling, and e-Sourcing/e-Procurement is outsourced by Industry/Companies to experts outside their organisations in line with their Strategy. The goal of the Industry is to retain the existing 'edge' definitely, but still fine-tune 'input costs' with a view not to get 'edged-out' in the emerging environment of globalisation and liberalisation. This helps in making Selling and Buying Processes highly competitive.

Please also visit my Blog : www.FreeMarketsDefence.blogspot.com for more details.

Defence Services purchase & use every conceivable Product & Service – including those of Your Company. In addition to 'Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS)' equipment and MRO products for use by the units and formations, our defence personnel need personal electrical & electronic gadgets, clothing , home furnishings, travel and insurance services.

If you are a small to medium sized company and are NOT planning to buy/sell Your products and services  through Net and e-Marketplaces, you are simply loosing a great opportunity !

In a broader sense, a B2B-B2C-B2G e-Marketplace is an online platform where Buyers and Sellers come to communicate, collaborate and make business transactions. e-Marketplace caters to a large number of participants with common interests as a Community. The main objective of an e-Marketplace is to create a venue filled with features that allow community members to efficiently conduct significant portion of their routine business processes on the Net. e-Marketplaces are also known as Exchanges.

One of the major challenges SMEs face is growing their businesses nationally and internationally, coupled with employing best business practices in their day-to-day working. SMEs mostly look for other SMEs, or in some cases Large Enterprises, as customers. 

The government of India (GoI) aspires to transform the defence industrial sector so that it can achieve a 70% level of selfsufficiency from domestic sources. At the same time, GoI currently maintains a ceiling of 26% on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the defence industrial sector, with some exceptions permitted for project-specific joint ventures and for dual-use activities. Raising — and eventually removing — this 26% ceiling would be an important enabler in bringing about the transformation that GoI seeks, avers Mr Julian Scopes, President, BAE Systems, India. 

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Indian Defence Industry Infrastructure comprises of Govt-owned Ordnance Factories, Defence Public Sector Undertakings, ably supported by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, www.drdo.org, Directorate General of Quality Assurance, Civil Industry including SMEs amongst others.