https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=62724 India is pursuing a proactive defence-innovation policy that prioritises indigenisation, public-private collaboration, and technological self-reliance. Private industry is urged to adopt a "profit-plus" model balancing commercial returns with strategic responsibility, expand roles in production, design and innovation, and help raise private contribution to defence manufacturing toward 50%. Institutional mechanisms at Swavlamban-iDEX challenges, an MoU aligning service requirements with academic R&D and manufacturing, and the SARATHI armament-management tool-are presented as pathways to transition start-up and MSME prototypes in domains like AI, autonomy and quantum computing into operational use while reducing import dependency. en-us Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:46:03 +0530 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:46:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=62724 India is pursuing a proactive defence-innovation policy that prioritises indigenisation, public-private collaboration, and technological self-reliance. Private industry is urged to adopt a "profit-plus" model balancing commercial returns with strategic responsibility, expand roles in production, design and innovation, and help raise private contribution to defence manufacturing toward 50%. Institutional mechanisms at Swavlamban-iDEX challenges, an MoU aligning service requirements with academic R&D and manufacturing, and the SARATHI armament-management tool-are presented as pathways to transition start-up and MSME prototypes in domains like AI, autonomy and quantum computing into operational use while reducing import dependency. News - Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:46:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=62724