The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed two contracts worth Rs 3,102 crore with the Bengaluru and Hyderabad units of the Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), in New Delhi. The MoD and the BEL-Bengaluru concluded the contract for the supply of Advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) suite for fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force. The overall cost is estimated to be Rs 1,993 crore, as per a statement from BEL. According to the public sector undertaking, the supply of advanced EW systems would significantly enhance the battle-survivability of the fighter aircraft while undertaking operational missions against adversaries’ ground-based as well as airborne fire control and surveillance radars. The EW suite has been indigenously designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The MoD signed the contract with the BEL-Hyderabad for Instrumented Electronic Warfare Range (IEWR) for the Air Force. The contract was a significant step towards enhancing the capabilities of the IAF to prepare for future warfare. The overall cost of the contract would be Rs 1,109 crore.

The Government of India enterprise has invited bids for the supply of polycrystalline solar modules for 2.86 MW of grid-connected solar power projects at Akola and Amravati in Maharashtra.

CSIR-NCL has partnered with BEL to manufacture two recent innovations that can help mitigate the Covid-19 outbreak. About 100 prototypes of hand held digital IR thermometer and 10 of oxygen enrichment unit (OEU) will be made available for pilot distribution and testing. Thereafter, production will scaled up.

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has successfully commissioned Phase I of the Real Time Train Information System (RTIS). The system has been commissioned through the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), under the technical guidance of Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO. RTIS provides real-time positional information of locomotives to the Railways. It facilitates automatic acquisition of train movement data, including that of arrival, departure and run-through timings, at the stations en route. The control chart of trains, which has RTIS-enabled locomotives, gets plotted automatically in the Control Office Application (COA) system of the Railways. The RTIS project involved installation of Locomotive Device, which tracks the location of trains using S-Band Mobile Satellite Service (S-MSS) of ISRO’s GSAT 6 satellite as well as 4G/3G mobile data service, setting up of MSS Hub and Data Centre with hardware and application software at the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), Chanakyapuri.

Central government public sector enterprise is setting up a Defence Systems Integration Complex spread over the sprawling 1,200 acre at Palasamudram, in Anantapur district. The project is being executed in 3-4 phases. The Phase-I work is in progress and the completion is targeted in next three years.

Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has decided investment of Rs. 700 crore for 2017-18. Public sector defence major is building new advanced night vision products factory and plans to set up a dedicated defence systems integration complex at Palasamudram in Anantapur. BEL aims to touch Rs 10,000 crore turnover from Rs. 8,825 crore.

Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) is a defence PSU listed on stock exchanges is excecuting Election Commission (EC) order to supply electronic voting machines (EVMs) in December, 2016. The order of 8.5 lakh EVM each is placed with BEL and ECIL at a combined cost of Rs 3,100 crore. The order needs to complete by September, 2018.

BEL plans to set up unit to manufacture advanced night vision products at Nimmaluru village, near Machilipatnam in Krishna district. The project will be executed in number of phases.

BEL plans to set up unit to manufacture advanced night vision products at Nimmaluru village, near Machilipatnam in Krishna district. The project will be executed in number of phases.