India: DRDO Teams Up With Singapore

India to enhance Singapore partnership

India’s Defence research and Development Organisation (DRDO) intends to promote enhanced collaboration with Singapore over a range of military aerospace technologies, an official told HIS Jane’s at the Singapore Airshow on 15 February.
The director of the DRDO’s industry and technology management unit, Parimal Kumar, said potential areas for collaboration included technologies related to India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme and the Kaveri engine designed to power the aircraft. The DRDO has been developing both for several decades.
“We are looking at acquiring a range of critical aerospace technologies through collaboration with Singapore,” said Kumar.
“Potential areas include antennas, composite materials, engine technologies and night-vision technologies.”
He added: “There may be opportunities to share our expertise. If we can successfully collaborate with Singapore it could turn into production programmes and potentially exports, but this would be further down the line. At the moment India is an importer and a collaborator.”