Vice Admiral RK Dhowan said one of the major challeges of Armed Forces is to keep platforms and systems updated with cutting edge technologies.
A key defence official today called for long-term planning vis-a-vis India's requirements in the electronic warfare (EW) systems to cut time and cost overruns.
Addressing India's first international conference on EW here, deputy chief of Naval staff Vice Admiral RK Dhowan said
one of the major challeges of Armed Forces is to keep platforms and systems updated with cutting edge technologies.
He said advances in technology are so rapid that by the time system passes through protracted process of formulation, development, acquisition and induction, it ceases to be state-of-the-art "at times".
In this context, the Vice Admiral suggested an approach of joint planning with vision and eye on the future with system developers, production agencies and users "projecting themselves into the future".
They should visualise possible scenario 15 years hence, what are the likely requirements of armed forces then and technology available; they then have to "work backwards" in terms of development, acquisition and induction, he said.
That would give them idea as to the technologies that need to be developed indigenously and the ones that need to be leveraged by transfer of technology. Time and cost overruns defeat the very purpose of such long-term planning, he said.
"Focus of warfare which was earlier platform-centric, has now truly shifted to become network centric," the vice admiral said.
"With the emergence of network-centric warfare, the electro magnetic spectrum and electronic warfare hold the key for any successful operation",he said.
Inaugurating the two-day conference, VK Aatre, former scientific advisor to defence minister, recalled the rapid advances in the EW field.
DRDO's chief controller (Service Interaction) Prahlada said "You can't win a war tomorrow without having understood and deployed successfully a proper electronic warfare system".
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