The Government of India, Ministry of Defence awarded Tata Power SED in 2006, seven Defence Production Licenses, thereby empowering the Division to design, develop, manufacture, assemble and upgrade mission critical systems in seven core areas of Defence Strategic Electronics.

Over the next five years the Production Licenses open a vast domestic addressable market, which include upgrades of existing Weapon systems and platforms. Additionally, business opportunities through ‘Offsets’ (as set out in MoD's Defence Procurement Procedure - DPP 2006) for Systems Design, Engineering and Testing Services will also be targeted by the Company, thus opening up the export market.

The seven Defence Production Licenses received are:

1. Electronic Warfare Systems (Stand-alone & integrated) for Army, Navy, Air Force, Para-military and Inland Security
2. State-of-the-art Network-Centric Warfare Enablers, including Tactical and Strategic Communication systems, other components, sub-systems and associated systems. Ruggedisation of COTS and specialised software for network management, monitoring and security. Integrated GIS with communication and navigation system for Defence and civilian applications, Global Positioning Systems and GPS-based vehicle navigation and tracking systems, etc.
3. Avionics, Airborne assemblies, Systems and Equipment for Aircrafts, Helicopters & AWACS including development of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), UVs (Unmanned Vehicles) of all types and for all usages including Defence and Civilian Space systems / Sub systems and associated Systems.
4. Air Defence / Naval guns, Field Artillery, Tanks, Combat Vehicles, Anti-Tank Weapons systems, Mortar, Shell, missiles, rockets etc., and any associated systems and sub - systems, including but not limited to Trajectory Correction Systems, Guided Munitions / Torpedoes.
5. Naval Combat, Air Defence, Artillery, Command & Control Systems, Border Security and Surveillance, including sensors such as Radars, Sonar, Thermal Imaging, Radiography, Optronics and Night Vision sub-system and associated systems.
6. MIL (Military Grade) products such as Display Console, Rugged Computers, Workstations Servers, On-board Computes, GPS Receivers, Printers, Documents / Bio-metric Security Systems etc.
7. Weapon Systems – Rocket and Missile Launchers, for Ground and Naval applications including associated systems and sub-systems, including inertial and GPS based navigation and tracking systems.