Defence

Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) is the Mini Ratna company and is India’s premier shipyard, specialized in construction of warships of various sizes and classes, submarines etc.
MDL has the Virtual Reality Centre (VRC) at Design Department which is the first of its kind in the shipbuilding industry.
The State of Art Shore Integration Facility (SIF) which provides complete combat system integration feasible prior installation thereby reducing uncertainties/potential time delays and rework onboard submarine.
Presently, the yard is constructing scorpene submarines and missile destroyers for the Indian Navy.

BEML Limited established in 1964, is a Miniratna Category-I multi-location, multi product engaged in design, manufacturing, marketing and after-sales service of a wide range of equipment to three distinct business segments i.e., Defence, Mining and Construction and Rail and Metro.

Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), a Miniratna Category-I company, was incorporated in the year 1970.
A pioneer in the manufacture of Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, BDL is now manufacturing surface-to-air weapon systems, strategic weapons, launchers, under water weapons, decoys and test equipment.
BDL is producing Konkurs-M and Invar (3BK-20) ATGMS in collaboration with KBP, Tula (Russia) and Rosoboron export (Russia) respectively and Milan-2T with MBDA (France).
Recently, BDL has achieved a milestone of producing the wholly indigenous Surface-to-Air-Missile Akash for the Indian Armed Forces.
C 303 (Anti-Torpedo Counter Measure Systems) producted by BDL has already been fitted in Indian Navy Submarines and Production of Light Weight Torpedo (TAL) is in progress.
In-house developed CMDS (Counter Measure Dispensing System) has been accepted by the Indian Air Force for Jaguar and LCA.

MIDHANI Ltd was established in 1973 at Hyderabad with the objective of providing the nation self-reliance in strategic materials and products like Light Combat Aircraft, MET Arjun, PSLV, GSLV power plants etc.
Bestowed as a Category-1 company, it took the leading position in developmental tasks and indigenization of critical alloys and products needed in the strategic sectors like defence, aerospace, nuclear and other sectors of Indian industry.

DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF QUALITY ASSURANCE (DGQA)

Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) is an Inter-Service Organisation under the Department of Defence Production responsible for quality assurance of all defence equipment and stores for the Army and Navy (excluding Naval Armaments) as well as common use items for the Air Force.
The organization also acts as the Authority Holding Sealed Particulars (AHSP) and provides technical assistance to the Armed Forces in several areas.

DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF AERONAUTICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) is an organisation under the Department of Defence Production that is responsible for quality assurance and final acceptance of military aircraft, accessories and other aeronautical stores for use in military aviation.
DGAQA headquarters is in New Delhi and has 34 field establishments in different parts of the country.

DIRECTORATE OF STANDARDISATION (DOS)

The primary objective of the Directorate of Standardisation is to establish commonality in equipment and components among the three services so that the overall inventory of the Defence Services is reduced to the minimum.
The objective is sought to be achieved through preparation of various standardisation documents, codification of Defence Inventory and through exercising strict entry control.
Being member of Allied Committee–135 (AC—135), an international body for codification, Directorate also functions as the National Codification Bureau (NCB) and provides training on codification as well as registers Indian manufacturers for inclusion of their products in the central data base maintained by AC-135.