Bharat Electronics is a defence electronics Public Sector Undertaking with Navratna status that designs and manufactures systems, having been set up under the Ministry of Defence to meet the specialised electronic needs of the Indian Defence and having designed, developed and manufactured the Akash air defence weapon system. Its product areas include radars, missile systems, communication and C4I, electronic warfare and avionics, naval systems, electro optics, tank electronics and strategic components.
Bharat Electronics developed a Coastal Surveillance System for India's coastline and offers it to friendly countries. The company makes tamper-proof Electronic Voting Machines. Its strategy pairs in-house R&D and indigenisation with outsourcing from Indian private industries, public-private partnerships and joint ventures, and it is targeting non-defence areas including civil aviation, anti-drone systems, satellite assembly, solar, railway and metro, cyber security, energy storage, homeland security, medical electronics and artificial intelligence.
