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Domestic industry to benefit from Rs 1000 cr contract awarded by MoD to BEL New Delhi, Feb 9 (KNN) Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a contract with Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU) Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for procurement of Software Defined Radio Tactical (SDR-Tac) worth over Rs 1,000 crore in New Delhi on February 08, 2021.

The SDR-Tac, jointly designed and developed by Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL) of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) through a consortium of domestic agencies and industry, comprising Weapons and Electronics Systems Engineering Establishment (WESEE), BEL, Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR) and Indian Navy will bring strategic depth to the Armed Forces.

The delivery will take place within three years. The BEL is already supplying SDR-Naval Combat (NC) and SDR-Air are under user evaluation trial. The DRDO and BEL are planning to provide the latest SDR with security grading to the Armed Forces.

The SDR-Tac is a four Channel Multi-mode, Multi-Band, 19’’ Rack-mountable, shipborne Software Defined Radio system. It is intended to serve ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore and ship-to-air voice and data communication for network-centric operations.

It supports simultaneous operation of all the four channels covering V/UHF and L Band. This SDR system houses multiple types of waveforms for narrowband and wideband applications. The MANET waveforms are available in UHF and L-Band to support adhoc networking feature for net-centric operations.

User evaluation trials covering exhaustive harbour phase and sea phase trials were completed successfully during May to June 2018 at Visakhapatnam for all waveforms including V/UHF and L-Band MANET waveforms under different network configurations.

Interoperability trials were also successfully carried out with all other form factors covering Airborne SDR-AR onboard Dornier Aircraft, SDR-Tac onboard INS Kirch in sailing mode, SDR-Manpack and SDR-Handheld. All the aspects were evaluated successfully by all user agencies of the Navy and clearance was accorded for procurement.

The Armed forces are in need of transition from the single purpose radio of the past to more flexible Software Defined Radios (SDRs) to serve most of their wireless communication needs. These SDRs will be backward compatible with existing Indian radios. Different Service groups require different form factor radios for specific platforms and waveforms/applications.

The SDRs allow the use of common waveform/application implementation methods for different form factors. They also allow the implementation of futuristic waveforms on the same hardware using software programmability, thus ensuring longer life and savings on cost.