New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Bengaluru-based Accord Software and Systems Private Limited on Wednesday, for the procurement of 20 ECGNSS (enhanced capability global navigation satellite system) jammers for the Navy at a total cost of ₹449 crore. The contract was inked in the presence of the defence secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, in New Delhi.
The contract falls under the Buy (Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured) category – commonly referred to as Buy (IDDM) – which mandates a minimum of 75 per cent indigenous content, making it one of the more stringent procurement routes under India’s defence acquisition framework.
ECGNSS jammers are electronic warfare systems designed to degrade an adversary’s satellite signal acquisition and tracking performance. They also employ signal spoofing, or deceptive jamming, a technique that feeds false positioning data to enemy receivers rather than simply blocking them – a significantly more sophisticated capability. The induction of these systems is intended to enable safer naval operations in multi-threat environments, where adversaries may exploit GNSS-dependent navigation and weapons-guidance systems.
Accord Software and Systems Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based defence electronics firm with experience in electronic warfare and communication systems. The award of this contract reinforces the government’s broader push to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers for critical military technology, particularly in the electronic warfare domain, which has gained strategic importance following conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war, where GNSS jamming and spoofing have been used extensively.
The Navy has been progressively modernizing its electronic warfare suite as part of a wider effort to build credible deterrence in the Indian Ocean Region amid growing maritime competition.