• ‘Ensuring Professionalism and Best Possible Service Conditions Coupled With Genuine Welfare are my Biggest Challenges’
  Director General, Border Security Force, Uthan Kumar Bansal

• ‘It Is Our Continued Endeavour to Improve Connectivity to the BOPs As Well As Mobility of Our Men’
  Director General, Indo Tibetan Border Police, Ranjit Singh

• ‘Extreme Physical Fitness is Not a Virtue But a Necessity for ITBP Personnel’
  Director, ITBP Academy, Inspector General Harbhajan Singh

• ‘Open Border is a Challenge Which Makes Our Work Intelligence-Oriented’
  Inspector General, Siliguri Frontier, Sashastra Seema Bal, S.K. Gautam

• ‘We are Currently Looking for a Tie-Up with an International Company for Development of Underwater Systems’
  Chief Executive, Mahindra Defence Systems, Brigadier (retd) Khutub A. Hai

• ‘BEL is Interested in Airborne Radar, Electronic Warfare systems and Avionics for the MMRCA’
  Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Electronics Limited, Anil Kumar

• ‘Saab is Currently Working With a Number of Indian Companies, Both in the Private and Public Sector’
  Managing director, Saab India, Inderjit Sial

• ‘The Experience That We Have Already Started Gaining With HAL On SFW, Is Invaluable’
  Senior vice president, international business and government, Textron Systems Corporation, Kevin J. Cosgriff

• ‘We are Committed to Build and Maintain a World Class Navy Capable of Meeting Our Nation’s Needs’
  Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Nirmal Verma PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC

• ‘In the Transfer of Technology Cases, HAL Needs To Enhance The Rate Of Technology Assimilation’
  Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC

• ‘A Time Bound Roadmap Has Been Drawn Up and the (Transformation) Process is Likely to Fructify in Near Future’
  Chief of Army Staff, General V.K. Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC

• ‘This Academy Will Help In Bridging The Deficiency In The Officer Cadre To A Considerable Extent’
  Commandant, Officers Training Academy, Gaya, Lt Gen. Vijai Sharma

• ‘We Would Like The Order For P75(I) To Be Placed At The Earliest’
  Chairman and managing director, Mazagon Dock Ltd., Vice Admiral H.S. Malhi

• ‘We Have To Put the Foundation in Place to Ensure we can be Successful’
  President and Chief Executive Officer, Bell Helicopter, John Garrison

• ‘Should AFSPA be Revoked, our Responsibilities Will Increase’
  Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S.M. Sahai

• ‘The Top Two Threat Vectors Are Phishing Attacks and Insider Threats’
  Vice president, Raytheon Homeland Security, Brian Seagrave

• ‘Caesar Has Been Used in the Combat Zones of Afghanistan and Lebanon and Has Demonstrated its High Reliability’
  External communication, Nexter Systems, Laetitia Blandin

• ‘We Hope to Sign the MMRCA Contract During the Current Financial Year’
  Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC

• ‘The Simulator Training Would Keep Increasing as Time Progresses, But Hands-on Training Cannot be Dispensed With’
  Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja

• ‘We need it (AESA) too, for our Typhoons. That is the Best Guarantee India Can Have’
  UK minister for defence equipment support and technology, Peter Luff

• ‘I think That While the Services are Interested in Capabilities, the MoD looks at the Promise of Capabilities’
  Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin India Pvt. Ltd, Roger Rose

• ‘We Are Exploring Our Best Options to Collaborate With Different Indian Shipyards’
  Naval Architect/Area Director, Commercial Division, NAVANTIA S.A., Jorge García-Monedero

• ‘While the Navy’s Role has not Changed, One has to Prioritise According to the Threats Faced by the Nation’
  Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Nirmal Verma PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC

• ‘It Was Very Clear in the Government Order That the Responsibility and Accountability for Coastal Defence was of the Indian Navy’
  Vice Admiral Sanjeev Bhasin, FOC-in-C, Western Naval Command (30 April 2009-30 April 2011)

• ‘It is Always the First Ship Which Takes Time, Because in Shipbuilding One Cannot Build a Prototype’
  Chairman and managing director, Mazagon Dock Ltd, Vice Admiral H.S. Malhi

• ‘We Will Work Out a Mechanism Where the SPOs Can Either be Absorbed in the Home Guards or the Police’
  Chief minister, Chhattisgarh, Dr Raman Singh

• ‘Maoists Are Creating a Corridor Between Bastar and North Orissa, To Go Up Till West Bengal via Jharkhand’
  DGP, Chhattisgarh, Vishwa Ranjan

• ‘The Mitanin Programme has Certainly not been Implemented in the Spirit in Which it Was Formulated’
  President, PUCL, Chhattisgarh, Dr Binayak Sen

• ‘As An Indian, I Am Proud to Say that MDL has Out-performed the Learning Curve in this Project’
  Chairman and managing director, Mazagon Dock Limited, Vice Admiral H.S. Malhi

 

• ‘PSL is the First Indian Shipyard to Undertake Modular Construction with Efficient Shipbuilding Processes’
  Chairman, Pipavav Shipyard Ltd, Nikhil P. Gandhi

• Our Political Response to Situations is Much Better Now than it was Last Year’
  Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah

• ‘Ak-47 Is Not My Weapon. It’s A Mere Tool To Be Used Occasionally. The Heart Is My Weapon’
  General Officer Commanding, 15 Corps, Lt Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain AVSM, SM, VSM**

 

• ‘What We Faced is Not Peaceful Protests, as Claimed, but Large Stone-Pelting Mobs and Attempts at Arson’
  Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Range, S.M. Sahai

• ‘CRPF is Fully Capable of Taking on the CI Ops Along With the State Police if a Competent Authority Deems it so’
  Inspector General, Operations, Kashmir, Central Reserve Police Force, B.N. Ramesh Elettronica S.p.A, Paolo Izzo

• ‘Aero India Was an Excellent Opportunity for us to Showcase our Latest, State-of-the-Art Products and Technologies’
  Resident manager India, business development, Elettronica S.p.A, Paolo Izzo

• ‘In the Space Sector We Are Looking at Launch Vehicles as Well as Expanding Our Engagement in Satellite Controls’
  President, defence & space, Honeywell Aerospace, Mike Madsen

•  ‘We Are Looking To Cater To Simulation and Training Needs of India’
  Vice president and manager director, Asia Pacific, Rockwell Collins, T.C. Chan  

•  ‘The Ministry Continuously Weeds out Inefficient Procedures and Adopts the Best Practices to Ensure that there are no Undue Delays’
  Minister of state for defence, M.M. Pallam Raju  

 

•  ‘The IAF is Funding up to 30 Per Cent of the Design and Development Cost of LCA MK II’
  Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik PVSM, AVSM, ADC  

 

•  “We Are Looking For a Much Larger Role in The MMRCA Contract As The Offset Values Are Very High”
  Ashwani Kumar Datt, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)  

 

• ‘We Need to, And Are, Training to Meet all Contingencies in the Present and Future Manifestations of Warfare’
  Commandant, Army War College, Lt Gen. Deepak Raj AVSM, SM  

 

• ‘We Need to Improve Our Research and Development and Quality Control Skills’
  Officiating Chief Engineer, Himank (Leh), Col V.S. Yadav  

 

• ‘Today, We Have the Advanced Equipment Which Can Take Care of a Larger Portion of The Spectrum and is More Potent’
  Commandant, Military College of Telecommunication and Engineering, Lt Gen. V.K. Sharma  

 

• ‘Besides substantially stretching our air defence umbrella from what we currently have, we will get viable shore-strike capability with the MiG-29Ks’
  Flag Officer Naval Aviation, Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai  

 

• ‘We Expect to Launch the First Scorpene Submarine Sometime in 2014’
  CMD, Mazagon Dock Ltd, Vice Admiral H.S. Malhi  

 

• ‘I See Indian-Italian Relationship As A Dynamic One, Extended Over A Wide Spectrum Of Experiences’
  Ambassador of Italy to India, Giacomo Sanfelice di Monteforte  

 

• ‘No Example Exists in the World to Compare the Level and Depth of Technology That We Have Transferred To India’
  Managing director, DCNS India, Bernard Buisson  

 

• ‘We Are Making Four Stealth, State-Of-Art ASW Corvettes (P28) for the Indian Navy’
  Chairman and Managing Director, Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, Rear Admiral K.C. Shekhar AVSM, VSM (retd)  

   

• ‘INS Hansa is one of the contenders for Advanced Jet Trainer Hawks’
  Commanding Officer, INS Hansa, Cmde Ravneet Singh NM  

 

• ‘‘By the middle of next year, we expect all the 16 MiG-29K to be here’
  Commanding Officer, Intensive Flying, Trial and Testing Unit (MiG-29K), Cdr A.D. Theophilus  

 

• ‘We Want To Improve the Indigenous Content And Reduce Import of Aeronautical Components’
  Chief Controller R&D (SI and AE), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Dr Prahlada  

 

• 'Both Countries Agree That No Pretext Justifies Terrorism and Killing Of Innocent Civilians For Alleged Political Purposes'
  Ambassador of France to India, Jerome Bonnafont  

 

• ‘IAF Envisages a Combat Strength of Approximately 40 Squadrons by 2020’
  Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal, P.V. Naik PVSM, VSM, ADC’  

 

• The Indian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft is Planned for Induction From 2018’
  Chairman, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Ashok Nayak  

 

• ‘With the Kind of Air Assets that are Coming into this Sector, We will Be Able to Support the Army as far as Air Defence is Concerned’
  Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal K.K. Nohwar VM  

 

• ‘Simulator-Based Training Philosophy Has Not Only Enhanced the Quality of Training But Also Economises On Training Resources’
  Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, Air Marshal V.R. Iyer  

 

• ‘Remoteness of the Place Is Our Biggest Challenge’
  Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station Tezpur, Air Commodore T.K. Nair  

 

• ‘Our Roles Include Air Defence and Counter Air Operations in Which We Practice Air Dominance’
  Commanding Officer, No. 2 Squadron, Wing Commander D.S. Dangi  

 

• ‘Helicopters Currently Make Up Five to Six Per Cent of HAL’s Total Business; this is Expected to Grow to 20–25 Per Cent Over the Next 12 Years’
  Managing Director, Helicopter Complex, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, P. Soundara Rajan  

 

• ‘Given the Features and Functionality of the Tejas, We Feel the Weight is Reasonable’
  Director ADA, P.S. Subramanyam  

 

• As the Terror Infrastructure in Pakistan Remains Intact, Infiltration Attempts Continue and the Terrorist Threat Remains a Reality’
  Chief of Army Staff, General V.K. Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC