Mon 08 Aug 2022
New Delhi : The Army Design Bureau on behalf of the Indian Army has signed an MoU with the Drone Federation of India to collaboratively work towards promoting research, development, testing, and manufacturing of drones, counter-drone, and associated...
Thu 04 Aug 2022
New Delhi : Dr. Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister of State stated that India’s satellite-based navigation system, NavIC, is as good as the GPS of the United States in terms of position accuracy and availability in its service region. The Minister was replying...
Mon 01 Aug 2022
New Delhi : Drones offer tremendous benefits to almost all sectors of the economy. These include - agriculture, vaccine delivery, surveillance, search and rescue, transportation, mapping, defence, and law enforcement to name a few. The Government is utilising...
Fri 29 Jul 2022
New Delhi : Coastal monitoring and surveillance is being carried out on real time basis by Indian Coast Guard around India’s coastline through Chain of Static Sensors (CSS) consisting of 46 radar stations which have been established under Coastal Surveillance...
Fri 29 Jul 2022
New Delhi : Modernisation of Defence Armed Forces involves the acquisition of platforms, technologies, and weapon systems to upgrade and augment Defence capabilities and is a continuous process based on threat perception, operational necessities, and...
Wed 27 Jul 2022
Bangalore : HAL signed a contract worth over US$100 million for supply and manufacture of 88 TPE331-12B engines/kits along with maintenance and support services to power the Hindustan Trainer Aircraft (HTT-40). The contract was exchanged by Mr. Eric...
Mon 25 Jul 2022
New Delhi : Ministry of Civil Aviation has introduced seaplane operations from water aerodromes under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN (UdeDeshkaAamNagrik). Airports Authority of India (AAI), the implementing agency has awarded 14 Water Aerodromes under...
Thu 21 Jul 2022
New Delhi : Expansion/ Modernisation of airports is a continuous process and is undertaken by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) or other airport operators from time to time depending on the availability of land, commercial viability, socio-economic...
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Bangalore : Around 60 Start-Ups have registered with ISRO since "unlocking" of the Indian Space sector recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and quite a few of them are dealing with projects related to Space debris management. The other Start-Up proposals...
Fri 08 Jul 2022
Bangalore : Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Safran Helicopter Engines have signed an agreement to create a new joint venture intended to develop helicopter engines. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by Mr. R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL, and Mr...
The second provisional list of 23 beneficiaries under the PLI Scheme for drones and drone components
Wed 06 Jul 2022
New Delhi : The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has released the second provisional list of 23 beneficiaries under the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for drone and drone components. These include 12 drone manufacturers and 11 drone component...
Thu 09 Jun 2022
Bangalore : Rossell Techsys has announced the completion of 100,000 deliveries to Boeing for its various platforms, including 50,000 deliveries for the Apache platform alone. The strategic partnership continues to strengthen with Rossell Techsys manufacturing...
Wed 08 Jun 2022
New Delhi : Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has approved the enhancement of funding under the Technology Development Fund (TDF) scheme of the Ministry of Defence to Rs 50 crore per project from Rs 10 crore. The TDF scheme, executed by Defence Research and...
Wed 18 May 2022
New Delhi : In continuous pursuit to achieve self-reliance in defence manufacturing and minimise imports under ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, Department of Defence Production (DDP), the Ministry of Defence has intensified the drive for indigenisation of defence items...
Thu 05 May 2022
New Delhi : The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has opened the application window for those manufacturers of drones and drone components, who may have crossed the PLIeligibility threshold for the full financial year (1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022). Such...