Smaller, smarter, potent and cheaper combat entities — linked and networked – will be at the heart of future warfare.

• Atul Pant
• April 27, 2020
• Issue Brief

The inevitable reprioritisation of the central government’s expenditure in the coming union budgets would affect the resource allocations particularly for big ministries like the MoD, which will be forced to realign their business practices.

• Laxman Kumar Behera
• April 24, 2020
• IDSA Comments

Given the rapidly rising pension liability in India and the concern expressed by the CDS, the experiences of the US and the UK could be useful in carrying out pension reforms in India.

• Laxman Kumar Behera , Vinay Kaushal , Amit Cowshish
• April 23, 2020
• Policy Brief

The PPP model helps in improving the productivity and exploiting the full potential of asset-based services that base workshops provide. This is particularly relevant when there exists a competitive market and a benchmark for the army between an in-house and an external solution.

• Vinay Kaushal
• April 18, 2020
• Issue Brief

Considering the impending financial crunch due to the Covid-19 pandemic and uncertainty about allocations in the coming years, it is unlikely that the MoD will be able to launch many new procurement programmes under the new DPP any time soon.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 17, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The present crisis is as much of a challenge as an opportunity to infuse financial realism in defence planning and bring about concomitant reforms in the quickest possible timeframe.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 13, 2020
• IDSA Comments

Draft DPP 2020 provisions that continue to enable Capital Budget Revenue Procedure (CBRP) must be revisited.

• Vinay Kaushal
• April 10, 2020
• Issue Brief

Draft DPP-2020 marks a paradigm shift from the past in many respects. It contains several new features intended to hasten the procurement process and provide a further fillip to the Make in India initiative in defence.

• Laxman Kumar Behera , Amit Cowshish , Vinay Kaushal
• April 08, 2020
• Policy Brief

There is a need to act quickly on the issue of force majeure to scotch all speculations about how the MoD is going to deal with the inevitable delay in performance of contracts and instil confidence among the vendors.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 06, 2020
• IDSA Comments

Reforming defence pension is no more an option but a compulsion considering its exponential growth in the past, which is likely to continue in the future if no reform is undertaken.

• Laxman Kumar Behera , Vinay Kaushal
• February 28, 2020
• Special Feature