High-tech small and medium enterprises look to Defexpo for orders

Aeron Systems, founded in 2008 by Ashvani Shukla and Abhijit Bokil, is looking to contribute to programmes such as the Tejas light combat aircraft

Small, ultra-high-tech companies such as Aeron Systems that are attending Defexpo 2018 in Chennai from Wednesday, are hoping to benefit from Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s assurance that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) would form the core of a galvanised defence industry.

Aeron Systems, founded in 2008 by Ashvani Shukla and Abhijit Bokil, two electronics graduates from Pune, is looking to contribute to programmes such as the Tejas light combat aircraft and the Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV).

Aeron operates in the rarefied realm of inertial navigation systems (INS), a complex package of motion sensors and computers that allow moving objects —