A Bharat Electronics Ltd-Rolta India consortium has bagged the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) development agency order for the Battlefield Management System (BMS) project, worth over ₹50,000 crore. The BMS project, categorised as a ‘Make in India’ programme under the DPP, will be one of the largest solutions to be indigenously manufactured for the Indian Army, a press statement from BEL said.

BMS is an awareness and visualisation system that aims to optimise the effectiveness of tactical units. BEL has been working on such battlefield systems and has established a test bed for continuous evaluation and implementation of user requirements.

“This prestigious project is meant to deliver command and control capabilities to personnel operating at the battlefront, at the battalion and combat group levels,” PC Jain, Director–Marketing, BEL, said. He added: “The BE-Rolta consortium is fully geared up to take on the challenge of developing the Battlefield Management System for our Defence forces. We also aim to maximise the indigenous content through in-house development of various sub-systems.”

The company has worked on several Tactical Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (Tac C3I) systems for the Indian Army, in association with Defence Research and Development Organisation. BEL has the capability of developing and integrating Tac C3I systems and will lead the consortium.

Significant investment

Rolta has also invested significantly in BMS technologies. Over the years, the company has delivered cutting-edge Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) systems to the Indian forces.

KK Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, Rolta India, said: “The selection of Rolta is a strong vindication of our strategy to invest in and build word-class IP indigenously. This IP has been indigenously developed by leveraging our deep domain knowledge of C2ISR and is already in wide use across various formations of the Indian Army.”

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