The Defence Production And Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP) was created to be the overarching guiding document of the Ministry of Defence to provide a focused, structured and significant thrust to defence production capabilities of the country for self-reliance and exports. The policy has proposed the following strategies to achieve the target of Rs. 35,000 crore (US $5 Bn) in Defence Exports by 2025:

• Defence Attachés have been mandated and are supported to promote export of indigenous defence equipment abroad. This effort would be supplemented by selected DPSUs (Defence Public Sector Undertakings) which would be positioned to work as export promotion agencies for certain countries with earnings linked to success fee.
• Subject to strategic considerations, domestically manufactured defence products will be promoted through Govt-to-Govt agreements and Lines of Credit / Funding.
• Export Promotion Cell set up to promote Defence exports through coordinated action to support the Industry would be further strengthened and professionalized.
  DPSUs and OFB would be mandated to have at least 25% of their revenue from exports including success fee earned as target by 2025.
• In collaboration with the Industry associations, Department of Defence Production would facilitate the onboarding of Indian Offset Partners (IOPs) in the discharge of offset obligations by OEMs.
• Defence Expo and Aero India will be positioned as major global events to showcase India’s capabilities in defence manufacturing, and also to encourage exports. This would be supplemented by branding the Indian Defence products. Defence Industry delegations would be organized to targeted countries in addition to participation in prominent global defence expositions.
• The end-to-end export clearance process in the Department of Defence Production would be further upgraded to make the process seamless and time-bound.
• In consonance with the provisions of various Multilateral Arms control protocols, Open General Export License (OGEL) regime would be utilized to encourage export of selected defence equipment/items to identified friendly countries.
• Active support of services would be taken for exploring opportunities for export of defence products.