Business of Supply
Palak Gupta
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US defence giant Lockheed Martin held its first ever virtual India Defence Suppliers Conference on 27 July 2020.
During the five-day event, themed ‘Making India Part of the Global Supply Chain’, participants took a virtual tour of the facilities of the suppliers. At the inaugural session, Lockheed Martin’s India vice president and chief executive William Blair stressed upon partnering in research and development.
“The focus area from the perspective of technology is not just the manufacturing opportunities that we are thinking of with suppliers and partners, it is also how to partner on technology, research and development,” said Blair. “There is a very notable defence trade and technology initiative between the governments of two countries (India and the United States). We, as industries on both sides, have been working on finding ways to support that since 2011,” he added.
The company’s technology focus areas are divided into parts—strategic and enabling—wherein the former includes autonomy and robotics, sensors and exploitation, cyber security and signals communicat
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