Category: Defence Acquisition
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FDI IN DEFENCE : SOME THOUGHTS BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Original Article @ https://www.vifindia.org/article/2020/june/20/fdi-in-defence-some-thoughts When our Finance Minister announced the raising of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in the defence sector under the automatic route from 49% to 74%1 it was reported as a ‘big push’ for Make in India. It was simultaneously reported that it will encourage multinationals to set up manufacturing bases in India or…
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Defence Procurement Advisory Board by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Original Article Published @ http://epaper.deccanchronicle.com/articledetailpage.aspx?id=14934370 It was long thought that nuclear, space and missile programs will provide us with Security and ‘Stability’. However ‘Instability’ due to threat from China and Pakistan has increased recently. This is happening at a time when the Pandemic is devastating our economy. The PM has responded to the Pandemic with the…
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ATMA NIRBHARTA AND DEFENCE PROCUREMENT By LT GEN P R SHANKAR
‘Atma Nirbharta (Self Sufficiency) is the only route to Strategic Independence’ Views of CDS To attain great power status India must strengthen its internationally identified weak link – defense procurement. In the current environment we either indigenize or remain a soft power. The CDS recently…
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CORPORATIZATION OF OFB – THE UNKNOWN ANGEL BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Add caption General Corporatization of OFB and ‘not privatization’ repeat ‘not privatization’ of OFB was announced with emphasis by the Finance Minister as one of the big bang reforms being undertaken in the Defense Sector as part of the Atma Nirbharta campaign. I welcome it whole heartedly. It is more than time for this reform…
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Defence Acquisitions: Integration of the Achilles Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-acquisitions-integration-of-the-achilles-heel/ March 01, 2018; By: LT GEN P R SHANKAR (RETIRED); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note Our acquisition system suffers from working in silos with little inter-connectivity between the silos. It’s not project driven. The entire machinery in the chain thrives on finding flaws rather than facilitating acquisition to progress. This article is the third in the series…
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Defence Planning: Covering the Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-planning-covering-the-achilles-heel/ April 25, 2018; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired) Print Email Editor’s Note This article is the fourth in the series of articles on Defence Procurement by the author. His earlier articles Defence Procurement – Strengthening Our Achilles’ Heel, Knowledge of Defence Acquisition – Educating Our Achilles’ Heel and Defence Acquisitions: Integration of the Achilles Heel have already been published on…
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Defence Exports: An Opportunity; With Pre-Requisites
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-exports-an-opportunity-with-pre-requisites/ Image: BharatShakti June 15, 2018; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (RETD) Print Email Editor’s Note The recently released Draft Defence Production Policy 2018 aims to export defence goods and services worth 5 Bn USD approximately by 2025. After this one heard that the Raksha Mantri had summoned all our Defence Attaches to Delhi and instructed…
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Defence Procurement – Strengthening Our Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-procurement-strengthening-our-achilles-heel/ January 09, 2018; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 2 Print Email EDITOR’S NOTE There was much hope in the strategic and defence communities when the current dispensation in Delhi moved at a fast pace on aspects concerning modernization of the armed forces and acquisitions to achieve it. However, the story so far has been patchy at best. The…
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Knowledge of Defence Acquisition – Educating Our Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/knowledge-of-defence-acquisition-educating-our-achilles-heel/ February 13, 2018; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired); 2 Print Email Editor’s Note The author had alluded to the fact of ‘Knowledge levels of the entire procurement chain being below par’ https://bharatshakti.in/defence-procurement-strengthening-our-achilles-heel , in one of his previous articles on the issue of defence acquisitions, published in BharatShakti. In this article, the General goes on to identify the…
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Human Angles Of Defence Procurement
Image Courtesy: Ministry of Defence https://bharatshakti.in/human-angles-of-defence-procurement/ March 22, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar ( Retd); 13 Print Email Editor’s Note DPP 2016 was hailed as a path breaking document. It was meant to loosen the reins of an overbearing bureaucracy, usher in transparency, speed up the procurement process, provide impetus for FDI in defence and a…
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