DEFENCE ACQUISITION COUNCIL

About:

• Established in: 2001
  
  
• Composition:
  • Chairman: Defence Minister.
    
    
  • Members: Minister of State for Defence, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Defence Secretary, Secretary Defence Research & Development, Secretary Defence Production, Chief of Integrated Staff Committees HQ IDS, Director General (Acquisition).
    
    
  • Member Secretary: Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence.
    
    
  
  
  
• Objectives:
  • Overall guidance of the defence procurement planning process.
    
    
  • Ensuring expeditious procurement of the approved requirements of the Armed Forces.
    
    
  
  
  
• Key Functions:
  • In-principle approval of 15 Year Long-Term Integrated Perspective Plan for Defence Forces and
    
    
  • Categorization of the acquisition proposals relating to 'Buy', 'Buy & Make' and 'Make'.
    
    
  
  
  

Recent approval:

• DAC approved procurement of 111 Utility Helicopters for the Indian Navy at a cost of Rs. 21,000 crores. This is the first project under Defence Ministry’s Strategic Partnership (SP) Model.
  
  
• It also approved procurement of:
  • 150 Indigenously Designed and Developed Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS) for the Indian Army,
    
    
  • 14 Vertically Launched Short Range Missile Systems.