Mission 6 of 7

Defence & Strategic Security

Strengthen national capability and long-term resilience — public material stays at policy and capability level.

Owner: Mission Lead — Defence & Strategic SecurityUnionState

Outcome hierarchy

10-year outcome → 3-year missions → annual OKRs

10-year outcome (Year 10 — beyond a single term; depends on renewed mandates)

By Year 10: a resilient, increasingly self-reliant defence-industrial and technology base with transparent aggregate capability metrics.

By end of Year 3

By end of Year 3: Procurement cycle-time measurement published in aggregate.
By end of Year 3: Veteran transition programme with tracked employment outcomes.
By end of Year 3: Strategic supply-chain resilience review with public summary.

Year 1 goals

Capability accountability without operational exposure

KR · Realised domestic-sourcing share (money actually contracted) published annually in aggregatemetric
KR · Budget earmark maintained at or above 75% while the realised measure is builtmetric
KR · Veteran transition tracking live in 2 pilot regions

Measurement

Outcome metrics

Sourced observations are published statistics, reproduced as stated. Targets are Pragati Shakti proposals. Where no national measurement exists we say so instead of inventing one.

Share of capital procurement actually contracted with domestic industry (realised, aggregate)

Unit: % · higher is better

Baseline to be built

Not yet measured

This is the outcome we care about — money actually contracted domestically, and systems fielded — not the budget earmark. MoD publishes the earmark (an input; see the next metric) but not a consistent realised aggregate. Establishing that aggregate, with no operational detail, is a Year-1 key result.

Baseline: Not yet measured
Proposed target: 80% by Year 10 of the programme

Share of capital procurement budget earmarked for domestic industry (INPUT measure)

Unit: % · higher is better

Baseline: 75% (FY 2024-25 earmark) Primary government data · Ministry of Defence (via PIB)
Proposed target: 75% by Year 10 of the programme

Observation log (2) · last checked 18 Sep 2026

Date	Value	Class	Geography	Period	Published	Confidence	Source / note
1 Apr 2023	75	Primary government data	India	FY 2023-24 (budget earmark)	15 Feb 2023	HIGH	75% of defence capital procurement budget earmarked for domestic industry, FY 2023-24
1 Apr 2024	75	Primary government data	India	FY 2024-25 (budget earmark)	15 Feb 2023	HIGH	75% of defence capital procurement budget earmarked for domestic industry, FY 2023-24

We measure

Share of capital procurement sourced domestically (published aggregate)
Defence R&D output measured by fielded systems, not papers
Critical-supply-chain single-point-of-failure count (aggregate)
Veteran employment within 12 months of transition

We do not define success by

Operational details (never published here)
Ceremonial announcements

Scope

Focus areas and who can act

Military readinessDefence manufacturingDefence R&DCybersecuritySpace capabilityDronesAutonomous systemsAIStrategic technologiesSupply-chain resilienceDomestic manufacturingResearch ecosystemsVeteran transition

Who can act?

UnionDefence is exclusively a Union subject (List I, Entry 1).
StateStates host industrial corridors, skilling and veteran services.

Federalism explained →

Sample implementation schedule · simulated

How the work board for this mission would look (1 sample cards)

These cards demonstrate the record-keeping. None of these initiatives has started; dates are relative to taking office (Y1 Q1 = first quarter).

PS-009

Veteran transition employment tracking

Illustrative: ResearchUnion

Transition outcomes for veterans are not systematically measured.

Owner: Mission Lead — Defence & Strategic Security
Baseline: Not measured
Target: 12-month employment outcome tracked in 2 regions
Sample dates: Y1 Q2 → Y2 Q3
Est. / actual: ₹15 cr / ₹0 cr
KPI: Veteran employment within 12 months
Priority: 2 / 100

Depends on: Resettlement directorate data access

Risks: Low survey response

Y1 Q2 — Sample schedule: problem statement validated with veteran organisations in Y1 Q2.

Learning · simulated examples

Labs projects and what didn't work

Labs

IDEAProcurement cycle-time analytics (aggregate)

What didn't work

No discontinued programmes recorded.