Overview
- GRSE and Bengaluru-based Centum Electronics executed the agreement in Kolkata on October 8, 2025, creating a formal framework to co-develop next-generation systems for Indian Navy platforms.
- Planned work includes joint research and development, production of components and sub-assemblies, and shipboard installation, integration, setting to work, and trials.
- The collaboration also covers modernization, with services to upgrade existing navigation suites on in-service vessels.
- GRSE describes the initiative as building indigenous design and manufacturing capacity in line with the government’s self-reliance policy.
- Operational momentum provides a testbed, with 13 warships under construction and the second ASW shallow-water craft recently delivered, while GRSE’s shares have climbed 71% in six months and 13.4% over the past month.