Interview with Mr. Upender Bhati. Head Business Development, Applied Electro-Magnetics.

DW : What products and solutions would you be promoting at Defexpo 08

Mr. Upender Bhati: We will display our complete range of Ground Testers for Sukhoi and Mirage, and VOIP solutions for C4I, and solutions to tackle obsolence issues.

DW : Please describe one or two key products in detail and their competitive advantage.

Mr. Upender Bhati: Ground testers for Sukhoi, Mirage, fully automated indegenised. ATC System, VOIP based VCCS.

DW : Are you looking for Industrial partnerships in India- if so in what areas

Mr. Upender Bhati: Yes - We are looking for industrial partnerships in India, in areas like R&D technology transfer, MRO, MAFI, MRCA etc

DW : How do you regard the Indian defense market in terms of market size for your kind of product or service

Mr. Upender Bhati: The Indian defense market is very large in terms of the market size, this could be easily seen by the reference of the te billion dollar procurement plans of the Indian Air Force. This is one of of the world's biggest combat aircraft programme sicne many years

DW : What is the message you would like to give our readers- many of whom are from the Indian defense forces and MoD- in short your potential customers

Mr. Upender Bhati: WE are a 30 year old company with core competence in R&D and manufacturing in embedded technologies. We have been working directly with the Indian Air Force, many of our equipment are currently been used across all units of Indian Air Force.