ITTR it is a good question and leads to many possible paths where POETs interest could be aligned. The search in itself is educational whether the dots you point to are real or not. For example if we look at just the night vision capabilities of POET. The POET GaAs platform could provide outstanding capabilities well beyond anything currently available in the market today.
So if we follow your trail… (Jean-Louis Malinge is a board member at EGIDE. Egide’s sales representative in India is Global Marketing Services) in addition to the DROD and DOS GMS also has the following clients:
BEL – Bharat Electronics Limited which is owned by the Indian Government and primarily manufactures advanced electronic products for the Indian Armed Forces.
And
HBL ETLA Avionics Ltd. (owned by Tata Advanced Systems)
http://www.tataadvancedsystems.com/static.php?id=60
The link below contains an interesting story regarding India’s efforts with TASL to bring F16 construction to India which got blocked because India wanted to include technology transfer.
http://www.defenseworld.net/company/237/TATA_Advanced_systems