M/s Vashishtha Research Pvt Ltd., the startup company incubated under Department of Aerospace Engineering IIST (by one of our research students) has successfully developed and delivered a halogen lamp based thermal excitation system to CMSE/ ISRO. The system is capable of generating thermal loading profiles of step, sinusoidal, frequency modulated and coded excitation. The system also includes an indigenously developed lamp controller board and software GUI. It can be used for thermographic inspection of aerospace structures.