The new operating system is being developed by the country's Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ravi Kumar Gupta, a spokesman for the DRDO, said.
The DRDO is a wing of the country's Ministry of Defence, and has about 50 laboratories specialized in developing technologies in a number of areas including aeronautics, armaments, electronics, combat vehicles, engineering systems, instrumentation, missiles, advanced computing and simulation, special materials, naval systems, life sciences, training, information systems and agriculture.
Although the new operating system will be originally developed for defense applications, it may also be made available to the commercial sector, Gupta said.
India is tightening on security and the right to interception by the government on various fronts. Its current dispute with Research In Motion for greater access to communications on the BlackBerry network for example reflects its concern that communications are increasingly used by terrorists and other enemies of the country to plan attacks.
It has also introduced rules for telecommunications service providers that require them to buy from vendors who are willing, among other things, to give the government access when required to software source code and engineering designs of their products. The rules are under review after they came in for criticism from some vendors.
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