The New Indian Express ·
Centre allows industry access to DRDO source codes for faster weapon upgrades
NEW DELHI: Private firms that manufacture Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) designed weapon systems will now be able to access the software source codes running them, under a framework the government launched on Tuesday to let licensee industries carry out upgrades and manage electronics obsolescence without going back to the designing laboratory each time.
The framework was among a clutch of policy initiatives unveiled by defence minister Rajnath Singh at a DRDO-industry synergy meet held in the capital. According to the government statement issued on Tuesday, the framework is "standardised, secure" and has been launched "to accelerate software-defined defence capabilities and obsolescence management".
Source code is essentially the set of instructions that tells a weapon system’s software how to function.
