Why Interoperability Is the Least Glamorous Problem in Defence
Nobody announces a translation layer. Everybody announces a platform. The gap between those two facts is why platforms bought over forty years cannot operate …
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The Distance Between Seeing and Acting
Detection has become cheap and fast. The decision that follows detection has not. When the threat operates in seconds and the loop operates in minutes, better …
Read →India Has Simulation Users and No Simulation Builders
Every serious Indian manufacturer runs its analysis on solvers written in the United States, France or Germany. There are good reasons for that and none of them …
Read →What Actually Happens Between a Prototype and a Product
The demo works. Eighteen months later there is still no product. The work in between is real, it is most of the total effort, and almost nobody budgets for it …
Read →Why India Designs No Chips
About a fifth of the world’s chip design engineers work in India. India owns almost no chip architectures. Those two facts are compatible, and …
Read →Digital Twins Are Sold as Dashboards
A live 3D view of your plant with sensor values on it is a dashboard. It becomes a twin when it can tell you something you did not measure, and when someone has …
Read →Why Indian Startups Hire Six Vendors and Ship Nothing
The failure I keep seeing at events is not a funding failure or a talent failure. It is that the work was cut into pieces along the wrong lines, and the …
Read →What GPS Denial Actually Does to a Drone
Absence, jamming, spoofing and multipath are four different failures that get discussed as one problem. They fail differently, they need different detection, …
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