BENGALURU, Aug 26: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated an Academy for Excellence and two state-of-the-art testing facilities–EMC Test facility and Near Field Antenna Test Range at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) here today.
The Academy, built on six acres of land, is built at a cost of Rs 47 crore, is envisaged to address the training needs of not only BEL employees, but also its customers and vendors/partners, especially MSMEs/SMEs. It will be affiliated to National, International Universities and will also cater to the skill development initiatives of the Central Government.
The training programmes have been structured around three core areas including Quality, Technology, and Leadership, with various programmes designed with the help of experts from major institutes like IITs, IIMs, IISC, IETE, ISI, ASQ etc.
The NABL accredited EMC test facility, first of its kind in the country, is set up at a cost of Rs 60 Crore. It has Anechoic Chamber of size 11m x 21m x 30m and can conduct testing of Systems/Platforms weighing up to 70 Tonnes.
It can be used to conduct system level Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) tests for strategic Defence systems like Battle Tanks, Communication vehicles, Radar systems and Airborne systems including Nuclear Electro Magnetic Pulse (NEMP) and High Altitude Electro Magnetic Pulse (HEMP) testing. It can be used to carry out system level EMC testing for many projects of National importance like AKASH, IACCS, LRSAM, Weapon Locating Radar and Battlefield Management System.The facility will also be open for use to other Indian Defence companies, including MSMEs.
Near Field Antenna Test Range (NFTR) is a critical infrastructure for calibration and testing of Radars and communication antennas. This the third facility in BEL and the only one in the Defence industry in India.
This facility, set up at a cost of Rs 30 Crore, will help to calibrate and test next generation Radars with AESA (Active Electronically Steerable Array) based Antenna arrays as well as Antennas for major projects such as QRSAM, MRSAM and LRSAM. (UNI)
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