A 15-year perspective plan to be unveiled soon by the Ministry of Defence will spell out a larger role for the industry in developing niche military products and systems.
According to Vice-Admiral Sekhar Sinha, Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, the Armed Forces Long-Term Integrated Perspective Plan would also specify new requirements such as EW (electronic warfare) - which now was part of mainstream Defence planning.
This would help industry plan its collaborations and investments.
Vice-Admiral Sinha was speaking at the second international conference on electronic warfare, EWCI 2012, being held in Bangalore from Wednesday.
By involving industry, the Government wanted to reduce the long development time. Product support was also not adequate, he said.
Joint development and collaboration among Defence labs and industry were inevitable as technologies had to be developed quickly, Vice-Admiral Sinha said.