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Context: Navy accelerates indigenisation efforts, focus on weapons and aviation items.

Initiative taken by Navy to accelerate indigenization:

• The Navy has taken an early lead towards indigenisation decades ago and in 2014 promulgated the Indian Navy Indigenisation Plan (INIP) 2015-2030 to enable indigenous development of equipment and systems.
• Till date, Navy has indigenised around 3400 items under INIP, including over 2000 machinery and electrical spares, over 1000 aviation spares and over 250 weapon spares.
• Indigenisation efforts are adopted by Government to cut down on defence imports and boost domestic manufacturing
• The existing Naval Aviation Indigenisation Roadmap (NAIR) 2019-22 is also under revision. All fast-moving aircraft mandatory spares and high-cost indigenous repairs are being included in the revised NAIR 2022-27.
• Four in-house indigenisation committees have been formed to handle the indigenisation of spares with respect to naval aircraft.
• The Naval Liaison Cells (NLCs) located at various places have been nominated as ‘indigenisation cells’.
• There are currently 41 ships and submarines under construction, 39 are being built in Indian shipyards while in-principle approval from MoD exists for 47 ships to be built in India.
• Since 2014, 78 % of Acceptance of Necessity (AoN), by value, and 68 % of contracts, by value, have been awarded to Indian vendors.
• The Navy is working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the industry to cut down developmental timelines.
• Some of the focus areas include indigenous design and development and production of Anti-Submarine Weapons and sensors, Satcom and electronic warfare equipment, Anti-Ship Missiles and Medium Range Surface to Air Missile, combat management systems, software-defined radios, network encryption devices, Link II communication system, main batteries for submarines, distress sonar system, components of missiles and torpedoes etc.
• The Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO) provides a flexible and accessible interface for academia and industry with the Indian Navy capability development apparatus.
• In the last two years, 36 IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) applications have been filed by Navy personnel.
• The Navy has more than 20 Make I & Make II cases being progressed, under various domestic development routes of the procurement procedure.

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