Reports noted that Ministry of Defence (MoD) is “abandoning competitive” bid to award a 10,000 crore contract to develop Tactical Communication System (TCS) for the Army. The move could sideline six private sector companies - Wipro, Mahindra Defence Systems, Tata Power, L&T, Rolta and HCL – who were vetted by the Ministry to participate in the contract. The state-owned Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) is most likely to get the contract.
The TCS, when developed, will be a fully mobile network. It will allow the Army to have “network on which it can safely communicate and transfer data. The advantage of the network is that “messages sent out over the TCS cannot be easily intercepted or jammed since they will not remain on a single frequency; instead, transmissions will hop frequencies, dozens of times every second, in a pre-programmed sequence.”
• China's 2010 defence budget to grow by 7.5%
China’s defence budget for 2010 is planned to grow by 7.5 per cent to 532.115 billion yuan (about 78 billion U.S. dollars), said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC). Accounting for 6.4 per cent of total fiscal expenditure, the defence budget will be” mainly spent to support the reform of the country's military and improve its capability to deal with varied threats and complete diversified tasks.” added Li.
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