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TECHNOLOGY VISION 2035

5.0
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES

India is uniquely positioned in terms of sector has limited technological capabilities as
levers of demand for air transport, sustained of today. Therefore, Government and Public
economic growth, and almost a clean slate in sector will continue to play the major role in
civil aerospace sector. The global aerospace technology development and manufacturing till
supply chain is undergoing structural changes the private sector ecosystem attains a critical
due to significant cost pressures and risks size. Even when the private sector ecosystem
involved in high end technology areas and will mature, the private entities would enter
therefore there is a growing trend towards into technology development if it has a strategic
risk sharing arrangements in the supply chain advantage and a positive cost/benefit scenario,
along with greater sourcing from low cost which limits the private sector to established/
manufacturing countries, which augurs well for proven technologies for product development.
India. India with its large talent pool of English Therefore, the framework for aerospace
speaking engineers, lower costs of production, technology and manufacturing needs to
established software/IT capabilities can ramp-up focus on private participation in downstream
its aerospace manufacturing capabilities. technologies , product development,
commercialization public entities in the
Aerospace manufacturing is characterized upstream research and development.
by very long development cycles and huge
development costs, which makes the lack Another important element of this framework
of adequate experience in technology is the regulatory and certification regime in the
development and commercialization including country. Directorate General of Civil Aviation
certification and regulatory approvals even which is the agency responsible for certification
more critical. The success of aerospace of civil aerospace technologies and products
development programme will depend upon our would have to proactively engage with the
ability to address the challenges of adequate industry to foster innovation and technology
pool of right-skilled workforce, access to development in the country. This would
technologies through global collaboration, require serious augmentation of manpower
long term clarity on policy and regulatory and technical capabilities of DGCA through
fronts, strong certification capabilities, access to cooperative arrangements with research
cheaper raw materials, and a well-developed institutions, industry and global agencies so as
manufacturing ecosystem capable of supporting to meet the certification challenges for the
such initiatives. purpose.

The focus of developing manufacturing Governments worldover have played a
capabilities must be export oriented for significant role in development of aerospace
integration with global supply chain. Therefore, sector both in the developed and developing
most important aspect of any aerospace countries. Government has already put in
technologies/products to be developed by India place the requirement of ‘Offset’ in all the
should be its global saleability. This would require defence purchases. This policy of Offsets is
a strict compliance for quality & timelines and the most effective strategy for development
very stringent certification requirements. of local capabilities in the country in view of
huge pipeline of government purchase in both
5.1 FRAMEWORK FOR AEROSPACE military and civil aviation sectors. The potential
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND size of Offset business so created might be
MANUFACTURING much larger than the existing aerospace
Although private participation in technology capacity and therefore effective implementation
development and manufacturing is desirable of the offsets is the key for transformation of
for its efficiencies and management; private aerospace landscape in the country.

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