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The country has to be fully abreast of the times for its defence communication needs, said the Defence Secretary Shri Ajai Vikram Singh while inaugurating a seminar on Modernisation of Defence Communication – A perspective here today. The seminar has been organized by Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), a defence public sector undertaking (PSU).
The Defence Secretary also stressed that the armed forces and the defence PSUs should interact closely to achieve this objective. He also emphasized the need for fast response in the battle field scenario. He said armed forces could not afford to lag behind as safe and secure communication is a prerequisite for them. The two day seminar aims to bring the officers of the army, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists, engineers and managers of BEL together with eminent professors of the IITs to exchange ideas and deliberate on the current and future trends in defence communications.
Shri Shekhar Dutt, Secretary, Defence Production, said that the future wars are going to be very short and decisive and defence manufacturers have got to take note of this and change their systems in this direction. Unlike yesteryears, defence technologies are driven by advances in R&D in the civilian sector and the defence industry has to make use of these civilian technologies, he added.
Lt Gen BS Thakur, Vice Chief of Army Staff, said that deception decides battle whereas electronic deception wins wars. Underlining the importance of defence communication in a battlefield scenario, he pointed out that information was all pervasive.
Lt Gen Davinder Singh, Signal-Officer-in-Chief, Army Headquarters said that communication was at the hub of any war operation, which has become networkcentric. He emphasized that technology had a short lifetime and changes in defence communication technology are unavoidable.
Shri Y Gopala Rao, Chairman and Managing Director of BEL, while welcoming the gathering, assured that BEL was keeping itself abreast of the latest developments in defence communication. The company was spending about 5 % of its turnover on R&D, perhaps one of the highest in the country. He mentioned that about two thirds of BEL’s turnover is from products developed indigenously.
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