Your point is correct,Private players would be able to give the kickback which the DRDO lacks, and would be better at marketing, feeding the whiskey and the w, and other things, plus bribing the politician. Any businessmen knows, and every person tring for a government job knows that without kickback you might as well have the best grades , be first class first still you would be second, or even the best product etc, but there is that kickback system in coolie raj..