Tata Advanced’s Nova to execute radar contract

Deliveries to the Indian Navy will be spread over 10 years

February 22, 2017 09:41 pm | Updated 09:41 pm IST - HYDERABAD

Tata Advanced Systems’ subsidiary, Nova Integrated Systems (NISL), has signed a contract with the Defence Ministry to implement Indian Navy’s Surface Surveillance Radar (SSR) project.

The project involves delivery, installation and commissioning of the systems on naval vessels,delivery of simulators and establishment of depot-level facilities besides integrated logistics support. The deliveries would be spread over 10 years.

The SSR programme is the first procurement by the Ministry of Defence under the ‘Buy and Make (Indian)’ category of the Defence Procurement Procedure. The radar is based on solid state technology and is also suited for coastal surveillance.

The procurement of the SSR is part of the Navy’s plan for modernisation, according to a statement from Tata Advanced Systems (TASL). It would also be installed on the ships under construction and is in line with the Centre’s Make in India initiative. TASL CEO Sukaran Singh said the project gave the company “an excellent opportunity to showcase our prowess of development and assembly projects in high technology areas.”

NISL, an initiative of the Tata Group in the aerospace and defence sector, has partnered with Terma A/S of Denmark on this project to undertake the manufacturing, integration and testing of the radar system under transfer of technology in India.

Facilities at the TASL’s Combat Management Systems (CMS) development centre would be utilised for the SSR project which involves integration of the radar with a variety of weapon and sensor systems on different class of vessels of the Indian Navy’s Battle Assets, according to the statement.

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