Army chief General Manoj Naravane said Tuesday that the procurement process had not kept pace with the time requirements. Many procedural loopholes have crept into the procurement process because of the "ubiquitous nature of our rules and regulations that result in a zero-defect syndrome," he said. and stressed the need for a "bureaucratic revolution".
“The needs of the information age cannot be paralyzed by the processes of the industrial age. The need of the hour is to see a metamorphosis here too, maybe even to do without the L1 provider entirely. for that we need a revolution in bureaucratic affairs, "he said in a webinar for the United Service Institution of India.
The Army had achieved important structural changes by reducing the procurement channels for revenue and capital under the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army (capacity development and livelihood
The Army Training Command based in Shimla had restructured the curriculum for various courses and was working on domain specialization in certain areas. "The focus is on providing multi-domain presence and multiple skills for optimal employment",
Multi-Domain Skills
General Naravane highlighted the need to simultaneously develop multi-domain skills for effective integration: "One cannot expect to fight and win the next war with 'legacy structures developed from the past'. Ours e Armed forces structures must be agile, flexible, modular and networked. They have to reflect the realities and challenges of today's battlefield, ”he said.
Structures must support faster decision-making The advancing transformation of the Army into Integrated Battle Groups (IBG) not only configured the structure for its operational tasks but also shortened the reaction cycle by removing a layer from the hierarchy of existing command and control structures he noticed.
“What we have achieved so far is a mere union for the industrial age; We need to move quickly towards large-scale integration to combat the digital age and seek greater interoperability.It is difficult enough to be together, the difficulties with interoperability will be many times greater, ”he said.
The race for cutting-edge dual-use technology around the world had resulted in an unprecedented civil-military merger that had never occurred in the past. "Military, technological entrepreneurs and traditional scientific excellence centres come together for the benefit of the military," he added.