Later today we will be meeting with a large Indian company called Tata. This is the largest automobile company in India and you see their cars and trucks on every road we have been on. They are as common as a Ford or Chevrolet is in Texas.
We are meeting with them because they were recently the first commercial company to win a large contract from the Indian government. Some of the companies we have met with this week have been Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) that are mostly owned by the government. We have met with very large companies that are part of the Ministy of Defence or part of the Department of Atomic Energy???
As part of the government or military the PSUs have always been specified to be the prime contractor to the government so a company like ours would have to work through a PSU to do military contracts here. The PSUs are not the most efficient way to work and Tata won their large communications contract based on their high tech capability and their lower cost.
The meeting with Tata on Friday afternoon is our last meeting, tenth meeting I think, and then we pack and head to the airport at midnight to start long trip home. I had hoped to keep flying east so I could say I flew all the way around the world on this trip but we go back same way we came. Except trip back is 16 hours instead of 14. Sounds fun.
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