Overview
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chaired a Consultative Committee meeting in Jaisalmer on Tuesday that set out a multi‑year plan to modernise the armed forces and expose lawmakers to forward‑area realities.
- The government raised the FY2026‑27 defence allocation to Rs 7.85 lakh crore with a Rs 2.19 lakh crore capital outlay to accelerate capital procurement and platform induction.
- Ministers announced formal targets to reach Rs 3 lakh crore in defence production and Rs 50,000 crore in defence exports by 2029 to scale domestic manufacturing and global sales.
- Senior service leaders and officials at the Delhi Defence Dialogue framed Aatmanirbharta as technological sovereignty and urged faster DRDO‑industry collaboration to move AI, autonomous systems, space, cyber and EW projects from prototype to operational use.
- Officials said reforms to force structure, tri‑service integration, DPSU corporatisation and private‑sector access aim to strengthen supply‑chain resilience and sustain trained personnel who will operate and maintain new systems.