Challenges DRISHTI
Development of indigenous ship design Software
Indian defence shipbuilding currently relies heavily on imported, proprietary ship design and analysis software for hull form development, stability assessment, structural design, and performance optimisation. These tools involve high licensing costs and concerns related to data security, export controls, and long-term vendor dependency. The absence of a comprehensive, indigenous ship design software ecosystem limits self-reliance in warship design, restricts integration of Indian design standards and classification rules and constrains rapid design iteration, optimisation, and lifecycle support. There is a critical need to develop a secure, modular, scalable, and indigenous ship design software platform, tailored to Indian defence shipbuilding requirements, that can support end-to-end ship design from concept to production while ensuring data sovereignty, cost efficiency, and strategic autonomy.
