For CSIR-NAL, this MoU is a land mark achievement in realising commercialisation of developed technologies enabling Indian industries to compete globally and achieve self reliance in a high technology strategic area. "This is one of the best examples of public private collaboration effort towards Make in India" said Shyam Chetty, Director, CSIR- NAL. 

"This collaboration with CSIR-NAL reinforces TASL's continued commitment towards indigenous design, development and manufacturing of key systems and sub-systems for Aerospace and Defence applications, leveraging the technology developed by major Aerospace and Defence Labs in India.'' said  S. Ramadorai, Chairman, Tata Advanced Systems.

The IGAPS is one of the most technologically challenging aircraft core computing platform to be ever designed within the country for civil avionics requirements. This development is part of CSIR-NAL's vision of achieving self reliance in indigenous design and development of complex airborne systems for national aircraft programme needs.

The avionics architecture whose life-cycle costs are currently estimated to be approximately in millions of dollars is an architectural change which will enable it to keep up with the growing demand of low operating cost and high performance requirements demanded by industry today.

As a leader in the Aerospace industry in India, TASL with its global transition programmes with marque names in the aerospace industry like Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, has successfully demonstrated its ability to take complex aerospace programs and has recently announced partnership with Boeing Defence. TASL has also entered into the domain of precision manufacturing of aero-engines for Rolls Royce.
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