India seeks chipset manufacturers to make its local GPS alternative fly further into the market

  • India’s tech self-sufficiency drive has extended into satellite navigation, as the nation seeks manufacturers to help drive adoption of its own system.
  • The nation already possesses an eight-satellite navigation constellation, named NavIC, that it touts as having superior coverage of its own territory and the local region.
  • NavIC is also strategically significant, because India possesses medium-range missiles and needs celestial guidance if it were ever to use them in anger.
  • The RFP seeks entities capable of making NavIC receivers at the rate of a million a year and hopes the contracts will help local industry to grow.
  • NavIC includes a messaging system intended for use as a carrier of emergency information to ships at sea or other situations in which Indians are beyond the range of other networks

 

 

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