Defence & Dual-Use

India’s Battlefield Automation Gap

Battlefield automation is an industrial-capability race, not a procurement race. Using a proprietary Battlefield Automation Readiness Index (BARI), this report scores India against China and the United States across eight industrial layers — sensors, rugged electronics, batteries, tactical communications, autonomy software, testing and manufacturing — maps where the gap concentrates, reads it sector by sector, and identifies the startup, SME and policy opportunities that would close it. Published free, given its relevance to government-led initiatives.