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The projected draught ‘Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP)-2026’ seeks to guarantee categorisation and procurement strategy based connected technological availability and manufacturing readiness and to accelerate the acquisition process, the authorities said connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
The draught DAP-2026 papers has been uploaded connected the website of the Defence Ministry, and it seeks comments oregon suggestions connected it from assorted stakeholders.
“The Department of Defence has prepared the draught ‘Defence Acquisition Procedure-2026’ to propel jointness, atmanirbharta and integration, unit modernisation, and velocity of acquisition with scaling of production, starring to the maturation and improvement of the defence ecosystem successful the country,” the Ministry said successful a statement.
The projected draught aims to align India’s defence acquisition with the “rapidly evolving geo-strategic landscape”, the maturation of the Indian economy, the skilling of quality capital, the maturation of the backstage defence manufacture successful the state and the technological imperatives of modern warfare, it said.
Once approved, it volition regenerate the existing Defence Acquisition Procedure-2020.
The DAP is the cornerstone for the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ inaugural successful defence and focuses connected institutionalised penchant for “Buy Indian-IDDM (Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured)” class for procurement, thereby boosting home manufacturing and effectual simplification of imports, the authorities said.
“The projected draught volition guarantee categorisation and procurement strategy based connected technological availability and manufacturing readiness, exclusive procedures for faster acquisition of instrumentality with a abbreviated technological cycle, spiral designing and procurement of large platforms, exploitation of modern exertion earlier bulk procurement, pragmatic indigenous contented (IC) and indigenous plan (ID) contented evaluation, and utilisation of indigenous subject material, among others,” it said.
The caller DAP proposes to “ease fiscal and acquisition criteria” for inclusive participation, delegation of decision-making for quicker acquisition, revamping of trials and prime assurance processes, assertive infusion of digitisation and automation successful acquisition procedures and processes, and ‘Atmanirbharta’ with a absorption connected indigenous designing and retention of IPR, on with incentives for innovations, it added.
“The DAP would boost defence manufacturing and exports on with restrictions connected imports to domestically unavailable and captious instrumentality only,” it said.
The draught DAP-2026 document, including the Handbook connected Guidelines & Annexures, has been uploaded connected the website of the Ministry.
The ministry seeks comments oregon suggestions connected the draught DAP-2026 from stakeholders done email successful pdf oregon MS Word format wrong a play of 3 weeks, i.e., latest by March 3, arsenic per the prescribed format hosted astatine the website.
While the Defence Procurement Manual (DPM) 2025 deals with the attraction and sustenance of “defence equipment/platforms/systems, etc. nether the gross caput of expenditure”, the DAP deals with the superior procurement of equipment/platforms/systems, etc. nether the superior caput of expenditure”, the Ministry said.
The DAP-2026 intends to “weave the information of the federation and technological maturation successful a azygous thread and make the canvas for Viksit Bharat-2047,” it said.
