For Better Operations, Army Developing Real-Time Equipment Database

For better planning and carrying out its operations ranging from countering terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir to moving deployments along the frontiers with Pakistan and China, the Indian Army is developing an automated program that will provide real-time information to it about the life and present conditions of its tanks, vehicles, guns and air assets and their upcoming problems. The program codenamed ‘Project Beehive’ will be a centralized and automated system based in Delhi under the army’s Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME) corps. It will be connected to each of the 2,000 workshops being run by the EME. The EME is tasked with carrying out a repair, refurbishing, and overhaul of the army’s equipment, ranging from tanks, infantry combat vehicles, artillery guns including the new M777 Ultra Light Howitzers, small arms, radars and aviation assets. Each workshop has a two-year-old automated program called ‘wasp’, which compiles all data such as equipment under repair, how many to be repaired and their future life. The wasps will be integrated with the Beehive and thereby provide every data to it.