Journal of Defence Studies

Changing Roles of Navies in the Contemporary World Order with Specific Reference to the Indian Navy

As a mature and responsible maritime power, India has a clear self-interest in what happens in her geo-strategic maritime areas of interest. Consequently, the maritime security of India and its...

Optimal Resource Allocations for Defence and Inter/Intra Service Sharing

Ideally, resource allocation needs to be based on the strategic goals to be achieved. Presently, we follow incremental budget process, which is widely accepted as suboptimal. Therefore, there is a...

India’s Defence Spending: A Trend Analysis

In past two decades, the Army has witnessed a decrease in its share in the overall budget, whereas the Navy and the Air Force have increased their respective shares. This...

Planning for Sound Defence Budgets

Greater attention is needed in the areas of formulating a national security strategy in a systematic manner; effecting greater synergy between defence and national plans; capabilities-based planning and greater integration...

Address at the Inaugaral Session of the Seminar on Defence Budget

Defence budget accounts for a significant proportion of the central government expenditure. For the current year, the revenue and capital budgets of defence account for more than 20 and 80...

Offset Absorption: Adding Arsenal to Armament

Considering the volume of defence expenditure planned in the 11th Five Year Plan and in the future, it is certainly befitting for each recipient service to debate methods and procedures...

What India can learn from Global Offset Experiences

Boeing has successfully implemented offset programmes in over 35 countries completing over $29 billion in offset commitments and we are currently engaged in executing over 45 active programmes valued at...

Enhancing Manufacturing Capability for Efficient Offsets Absorption

Since Independence, as a policy, Defence R&D in India had been reserved for the state sector with the DRDO having been established with the mandate to conduct research into Defence...

Keynote Address at Defence Offsets Seminar

Offsets are today a common feature of international arms trade. It is estimated that offsets and related forms of counter-trade constitute 5 to 30 per cent of global trade. More...

Implementation of Offset Policy in Defence Contracts: Indian Army Perspective

The Offset Policy has been articulated in the DPP 2008. The Offset Clause would be applicable for all procurement proposals where indicative cost is above Rs. 300 crores and schemes...

Industry Perspectives on Defence Offsets

Defence offsets are expected to generate business in India of about $10 billion over the next five years. Some would be in the form of tangible product and service exports...

Background Paper

Definition, Forms and Types of Offsets Offsets

Gearing up for the Defence Exports: Challenges, Opportunities and Pitfalls

India has made rapid strides in defence technology in recent past and reached a stage of self-reliance. The objective was to have thrust in indigenous production and exploring possibilities of...

Essential Elements of India’s Defence Offset Policy – A Critique

Offsets have been variously defined. In essence, offsets in defence, as in civil trade, are compensations that a buyer seeks from the seller for the purchase of goods and/or services....

Offset Absorption Roadmap for the Indian Air Force

Offsets in some form or the other have been practiced in many countries over a long period of time. Even in India, licensed production contracts and technology transfer contracts with...

Offset Investment Inflow Priorities for Ordnance Factories

Offset agreements are formal arrangements of trade where some sort of leverage is exploited by a buyer to obtain compensatory benefits in the case of high value off-shore purchases by...

Technology Inflows: Issues, Challenges and Methodology

The defence offset policy mandates the foreign suppliers to plough back a minimum of 30 per cent of the contractual value of projects worth Rs. 300 crores or above to...

Offset Policy framework

I shall basically discuss the road map which we have offsets in the country. We in fact have a very good phrase called quasi direct offsets for our system. It...

Leveraging Defence Offset Policy for Technology Acquisition

Offset provisions were promulgated by Ministry of Defence (MOD), Government of India in DPP-2006 [1], and revised in DPP 2008 [2]. These provisions are applicable to all Capital Acquisitions categorized...

Prahlada , S. Radhakrishnan , Parimal Kumar |
January 2009 |
Journal of Defence Studies

Special Address at Defence Offset Seminar

The timing of the seminar is very apt and we are at a stage when we have made some headway and we can actually deliberate on certain issues relating to...