Hyderabad-based MosChip Technologies is building capabilities across this critical design layer of the semiconductor industry. The company provides silicon and product engineering services covering ASICs, system-on-chip designs, embedded systems and advanced digital products.
The company develops LiFi, Visible Light Communication and Free-Space Optical communication systems. These technologies use visible or infrared light instead of conventional radio-frequency signals. NavTech says it maintains its own research and development facilities and manufacturing capability for optical wireless communication systems.
The initiative is important because modern armies need combat engineers who can keep pace with tanks and mechanised formations. Traditional mine-laying often requires considerable manpower and time. A vehicle-mounted system can scatter mines much faster while remaining mobile.
Until now, the framework covered 41 specified countries. Under the revised system, OGEL coverage has been extended to all countries except negative or sensitive nations and countries subject to United Nations Security Council sanctions or arms embargoes.
The proposed aircraft is significantly more capable than the relatively small logistics drones increasingly used for last-mile military resupply. Reported requirements call for a 50-kilometre one-way operating range, a service ceiling of about 25,000 feet, as many as five sorties per day and operation in temperatures falling to around –40°C. Crucially, the aircraft is also expected to retain autonomous capability when satellite-navigation signals are unavailable or deliberately jammed.
For India, such an arrangement could address one of the most persistent technological gaps in its aerospace sector. The country has successfully developed indigenous fighters, helicopters, missiles, radars, electronic-warfare systems and increasingly sophisticated unmanned aircraft, but a high-thrust afterburning turbofan suitable for an advanced fighter remains a major technological frontier.
U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on 28 August 2026 that India plans to purchase the battle-tested Javelin anti-tank missile system from the United States. The statement is significant because it provides fresh confirmation that a procurement track first publicly outlined by the two governments in 2025 remains active.
At the heart of this underwater capability is the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory in Kochi, better known as NPOL. The DRDO laboratory has emerged as one of India’s principal centres for underwater acoustics, sonar engineering and anti-submarine warfare technologies, developing systems capable of detecting, classifying and tracking submarines and other underwater threats.
AGNIT Semiconductors, born from research at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), is developing GaN semiconductor technology for high-frequency communications, strategic electronics and power applications. The company describes itself as a fab-lite GaN semiconductor company covering the technology chain from semiconductor wafers to components and modules.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation has already demonstrated the basic long-range hypersonic missile technology and publicly displayed the LR-AShM during the Republic Day Parade in January 2026. Reporting preserved in DRDO’s own January 2026 newspaper-clippings compilation subsequently stated that higher-range versions reaching up to 3,500 km were at various stages of development, citing a senior DRDO scientist.
