Army

Indian Army

Highlights

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.
The Indian Army has a regimental system, but is operationally and geographically divided into seven commands, with the basic field formation being a division.
India has the world’s largest volunteer army.
The army has rich combat experience in diverse terrains, due to India’s varied geography.
Indian Army not only defends our nation’s frontiers but has also taken up the responsibility of providing internal security, especially in insurgent-hit Kashmir and the north-east region.
The Army’s field force comprises thirteen corps, three armoured divisions, four Reorganized Army plains Infantry Divisions (RAPID), eighteen infantry divisions and ten mountain divisions, a number of independent brigades, and requisite combat support and service support formations and units.
The army operates six operational commands and one training command.
The Indian Army has also launched an infantry modernization programme known as Futuristic Infantry Soldier as a System (F-INSAS). The Indian Army intends to modernize its entire 465 infantry and paramilitary battalions by 2020 with this program.
The Indian government has launched the wide-ranging plans for military modernization, police force modernization and border management.
In 2015, the Indian government started to implement the initial version of the comprehensive integrated border management system (CIBMS) project.
Through CIBMS the security of the two sensitive and most complex-terrain borders will shift from patrolling by regular troops to a quick response-team mechanism which strikes when the control room detects an infiltration attempt.
Integration of Indian armed forces and building advanced digital infrastructures for the army is one of the key priorities of the Indian government.
In the year 2015, the former Defense Minister of India, Mr. Manohar Parrikar has launched the ‘Digital Army’ programme.
Parrikar has unveiled a series of product to promote digitalization of Indian Army, such as IAF-HAL ePortal, Army Cloud, Digi-Locker and ARPAN 3.0 etc.
India has developed its first integrated defense communication network too. DCN is a strategic, highly secure and scalable system. It has a pan-India reach – from Ladakh to the North East to island territories.
Some of the key technology requirements as mentioned in the “Technology Perspective and Capability Roadmap (April 2013)” (released by India’s Ministry of Defense) are: Battlefield Transparency, Command and Control Architecture, integrated platforms to support Communication, supporting architecture and infrastructure towards achieving network centricity, Smart Radios, Strong encryption mechanisms and access to real-time information etc.
The standardization of ICT infrastructure for seamless coordination and integration of Tri-Services, tactical spectrum management and application of analytics, IoT, and cloud technologies in defense architectures are some of the immediate requirements of India’s Digital Army programme.

(Source: Wikipedia and government’s official websites)

Army Design Bureau

To boost the indigenous defense development efforts, the Indian Army has launched the Army Design Bureau (ADB), an interface between the Army, Industry, DRDO, and Academia. It’s a very crucial step to encourage the participation of all key stakeholders of defense industry and it will speed up the Digital Army, force modernization and Make in India initiatives.

Army Design Bureau

Army design bureau has published the third volume of ‘Compendium of Problem Statements’ in which the key issues have been compiled. This document will help all stakeholders (industry, academia and R&D institutions) to have a clearer understanding of the real needs of the Army.

Army Design Bureau – Compendium of Problem Definition Compendium Of Problem Definition Statements – Volume III (2018)

Directorate of Indigenization

Directorate of Indigenization has been established under MGOs Branch/DGEME to undertake indigenization activities.

Standard Process of Indigenization