Four Units / Strategic Business Units (SBUs) of Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have won the Raksha Mantri’s Excellence Awards under various categories for the year 2007-08. The four Units / SBUs are BEL-Hyderabad, which has won the Raksha Mantri’s Award for the ‘Best Performing Division’ among Defence PSUs; BEL-Ghaziabad, which has won the Group / Individual Award for ‘Import Substitution’; Military Communication SBU at BEL-Bangalore, which has won an award for ‘Design Effort’ and BEL’s Central Research Laboratory at Bangalore, which has won an award in the ‘Innovation’ category
New Delhi- Dr. Ray O Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, today announced that the organization will be providing a grant to a group of undergraduate students from the Delhi Technology University (DTU), formerly the Delhi College of Engineering, to develop a Next-Generation Urban UAV
EADS, the European aerospace and defence company, has established a new subsidiary in Japan to help coordinate and support the Group’s marketing campaigns and industrial partnerships there. From its office in Tokyo, EADS Japan K
SINGAPORE --- 2008 has been a challenging year for the Aerospace Manufacturing industry with its record breaking oil price hike in decades, which has seen amplified logistics costs due to the globalized nature of manufacturing supply chain. This has resulted in many business experts disagreeing with the idea of expanding a company network of suppliers to other low costs countries because in the end they will still have to pay extra on the logistic costs
--Procurement of Aircraft > A response to the Request for Proposal (RFP) relating to procurement of 126 aircraft for the Indian Air Force issued on August 27, 2007 has been received from six vendors. The technical evaluation of the proposal is presently underway
--Cost Escalation of Aircraft-Carrier> The Russian side has submitted a revised Master Schedule indicating a delay and an increase in price for repair and re-equipping of ex-Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier. The price escalation proposed by the Russian side towards repair and re-equipping, spares and training, etc
Israel's army chief, Major General Avi Mizrahi, has arrived in India on a three-day visit aimed at enhancing rapidly-growing defence ties between the two countries. General Mizrahi will meet Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor and also minister of state for defence production, Rao Inderjit Singh