Bharat Electronics Limited

History

• In 1966, BEL set up a radar manufacturing facility for the army and in-house R&D. In 1967, BEL began manufacturing transmitting tubes, silicon devices and integrated circuits. The PCB manufacturing facility was established in 1968.
• In 1970, BEL started making black & white TV picture tubes, X-ray tubes and microwave tubes. In 1971, BEL set up facilities for the manufacture of integrated circuits and hybrid micro circuits. 1972, BEL established manufacturing facilities for TV transmitters for Doordarshan. In 1973, BEL began manufacturing frigate radars for the navy.

• In 1980, the first overseas office of BEL was set up in New York for the procurement of components and materials.
• In 1981, a manufacturing facility for magnesium manganese dioxide batteries was set up at Pune. The Space Electronic Division was set up at Bangalore to support the satellite programmes in 1982. That year, BEL achieved a turnover of Rs. 1 billion.
• In 1983, the Andhra Scientific Company was taken over by BEL converted it to its fourth manufacturing unit at Machilipatnam.
• In 1985, the fifth unit was set up in Chennai for supply of tank electronics, with proximity to Heavy Vehicles Factory, Chennai of the Ordnance Factory Board. The sixth unit was set up at Panchkula the same year to manufacture military communication equipment.
• In 1986, BEL set up three units. Its seventh unit was set up at Kotdwara to manufacture switching equipment, the eighth unit to manufacture TV glass shell at Taloja and the ninth unit at Hyderabad to manufacture electronic warfare equipment.
• In 1987, a separate Naval Equipment Division was set up at Bangalore to give greater focus to naval projects. The first Central Research Laboratory was established at Bangalore in 1988 to focus on futuristic research and development.
• In 1989, BEL started manufacturing telecom switching and transmission systems and also the set up the Mass Manufacturing Facility in Bangalore and the manufacture of the first batch of 75,000 electronic voting machines.

• In 1996, BEL achieved ₹10 billion turnover.
• In 1997, GE BEL, the second joint venture company with M/s GE, USA, was formed as also the third JVC with M/s Multitone, UK, BEL Multitone. The same year, the US imposed supply restrictions on BEL.
• In 1998, BEL set up its second overseas office at Singapore to source components from South East Asia. In the same year US and Europe imposed sanctions on BEL. The company was able to overcome the effects of the sanctions and kept up the promised deliveries to customers.
• In 2000, BEL reorganised its Bangalore unit into six Strategic Business Units. The R&D groups in Bangalore were also restructured into Specific Core Groups and Product Development Groups. The same year, BEL shares were listed in the National Stock Exchange.
• In 2002, BEL became the first defence PSU to achieve operational Mini Ratna Category I status. In 2003, the company's turnover crossed the ₹25 billion mark. In 2005, BEL had a turnover of ₹32.20 billion. BEL achieved a turnover of ₹35.60 billion in 2005–06.
• On 12 May 2010, Boeing announced that it received the Data Link II communications technology for the Indian Navy's P-8I from Bharat Electronics Limited in April, one month ahead of schedule. BEL delivered the Indian-designed communications system that would enable the exchange of tactical data and messages between Indian Navy aircraft, ships and shore establishments. Boeing installed the system during final assembly of P-8I.
• In 2011, the Indian government-owned Bharat Electronic Limited showcased its entire range of C4ISR capabilities including network centric warfare technologies developed in-house at Aero India 2011. These include command and control system, air space management multi sensor tracking, situation simulator and tactical algorithm for air defence applications; battlefield management system and an all-weather 24/7 coastal surveillance system.

Products

• Electronic voting machines
• Voter-verified paper audit trail
• Traffic signals
• Radars
• * BEL Weapon Locating Radar
• * BEL Battle Field Surveillance Radar
• * Indian Doppler Radar
• * Samyukta Electronic Warfare System
• * Central acquisition radar
• * Reporter Radar
• Telecommunications
• Sound and vision broadcasting
• Opto-electronics
• Information technology
• Semiconductors
• Missiles
• * Akash in partnership with the Ordnance Factory Board
• Sonars
• Composite Communication System
• Fire-control system
• Radar
• Electronic warfare systems
• F-INSAS in partnership with the Ordnance Factory Board
• Simulators
• Tank electronics
• * Combined day sight for OFB Arjun MBT
• Defence communications
• * Data Link II communications system for the Indian Navy's P-8I
• * Combat management system for Indian Navy
• Solar systems
• Naval systems
• C4I systems for Air force
• A low-cost tablet PC being used in the Socio-economic Caste Census 2011
• Biometrics Capturing for Nation Population Register
• Encryptors for the Ministry of Home Affairs
• IFF secondary radar
• SDR and IP radio in multiple frequency bands

Locations

• Bangalore, Karnataka
• Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Panchkula
• Kotdwar,
• Ghaziabad,
• Pune, Maharashtra
• Hyderabad, Telangana
• Navi Mumbai
• Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh

• New York City
• Singapore
• Hanoi, Vietnam
• Yangon, Myanmar

• New Delhi
• Mumbai
• Calcutta
• Vizag

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