This is the first ever procurement order by the Indian Army of an ‘Innovations for Defence Excellence’ (iDEX) project as per the revised procedure. According to an official release, the contract was signed in the presence of Lt General J.B. Chaudhari, Deputy Chief of the Army Staff (CD&S) and Anurag Bajpai, Joint Secretary, DDP.
IMCS was the first system to be trial evaluated in accordance with the ‘Single Stage Composite Trial’ methodology based on the revised Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020. Earlier, the request for proposal (RFP) was issued to the developing agency in September 2022 and within six months, the contract was signed with HSTPL.
iDEX was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during DefExpo 2018 held at Chennai from April 11 to 14. The aim of iDEX is to create an eco-system to foster innovation and encourage technological development in Defence and Aerospace by engaging R&D institutes, academia, industries including MSMEs, startups and individual innovators and provide them grants/funding and other support to carry out R&D which has good potential for future adoption by the Indian Defence and Aerospace Organisation.
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