IDDEC
Integrated Defence Digital Engineering Consortium (IDDEC™)
India’s First Federated Digital Engineering Operating Model with Orchestration
The Integrated Defence Digital Engineering Consortium (IDDEC™) is India’s 1st a consortium-led, institutional, neutral, federated, non-monolithic, and vendor-agnostic digital engineering operating model designed to enable controlled, secure, and collaborative execution of defence digital engineering programmes without compromising sovereignty, control, or neutrality.
IDDEC™ is operated and governed by SCICUS International as the programme-level digital engineering authority, ensuring that multi-OEM tools and multiple system integrators can participate within a unified, structured, and defence-grade digital framework.
What IDDEC™ Enables
IDDEC™ institutionalises digital engineering at the programme level for Indian defence initiatives—particularly large-scale and turnkey programmes—by defining how tools, data, integrators, and stakeholders interact under a governed operating model. It enables collaboration without tool replacement, protects OEM intellectual property, and ensures that programme data remains sovereign, secure, and auditable.
How IDDEC™ Works
IDDEC™ is operated and orchestrated by SCICUS International as the Prime Programme Digital Engineering Authority. IDDEC™ designates a programme-approved, neutral PLM as the authoritative system of record for lifecycle governance, configuration control, and traceability. Certified OEM tools and system integrators interoperate through open and controlled interfaces, governed by security, compliance, and execution policies defined at the programme level.
Rather than replacing tools, IDDEC™ provides a federated framework that preserves tool independence, protects commercial autonomy, and governs how engineering ecosystems evolve over long programme lifecycles.
Why IDDEC™ Matters
IDDEC™ shifts defence digitalisation from isolated, tool-centric deployments to a programme-centric, sovereign operating model. It ensures that multi-OEM participation occurs within approved boundaries, execution remains auditable and policy-compliant, and long-term digital continuity is preserved across decades of programme evolution.