30 Start-Ups Every Year To Receive DRDO's Super 30 To Support

CIOReviewIndia Team | Wednesday, 06 January 2021, 09:54 IST

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Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, the Chairman of Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) said that at least 30 startups should be supported every year to develop innovative products for our forces.

He said this on the day of DRDO’s 63rd Foundation.

The Chairman addressed the DRDO fraternity on the academic institutes, R&D organizations, and the industry needs for working in collaboration on advanced and futuristic technologies for making India self-reliant in the defence sector.

He said, “A number of SMEs and MSMEs are supplying small components to subsystems for all DRDO projects and have been nurtured by DRDO. Now they have become partners in all new developments. He stated that DRDO conducted a competition “Dare to Dream” for Startups and very enthusiastic responses have been received. At least 30 startups should be supported every year to develop innovative products for our forces.”

In his speech, he also said that the DRDO scientists to focus on the next-gen requisites including the cybersecurity, space and artificial intelligence.

The Defence Ministry said, “The immense potential available in DRDO has been a catalyst for the development of industries in the defense manufacturing sector.”

DRDO Chairman further added that the latter should start giving efforts towards strengthening long term ties with the Academia and aim to leverage academic expertise available in the country and increase the synergy with them.

He added, “DRDO should concentrate on applied research and translational research and then make prototypes from the applied research. The industry should be in a position to adopt these technologies and have necessary infrastructure, and scale these up to market with sustained quality.”

Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy also said about the requirement for focusing on the documentation and productionisation for faster induction and said that many new initiatives towards enabling the industry and empowering youth for Defence R&D will be taken by DRDO.

The Chairman of DRDO also launched an Online Industry Partner Registration Module for simplifying the process of vendor registration, and released the DRDO Monograph on “Issues on Development of Communication Technology using Orbiting Satellites” and also the Environmental Safety Manual and Guidelines for Disposal of Life Expired Chemicals and Gases at DRDO Laboratories.

Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy stated that the eventful year has ended and a new one is about to begin and inquired to the scientists about the innovation and creation of the Nation. He said that the efforts DRDO have given a quantum jump to India’s self-reliance in defence, contributing towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat.

Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy emphasized on the contributions of DRDO during the COVID Pandemic and stated that almost 40 DRDO laboratories developed more than 50 technologies and over 100 products on war footing to start products and technologies for combating COVID 19 pandemic in India.

The products and technologies included PPE Kits, Sanitizers, Masks, UV Based disinfection systems, Germi Klean and critical parts of ventilators leading to ventilator manufacturing in the country in a very short span of time.

Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy also said that DRDO has established three dedicated COVID hospitals at Delhi, Patna and Muzaffarpur in a record time for creating a strong medical infrastructure.

Moreover, Mobile Virology Research and Diagnostics Laboratory (MVRDL) were developed to rapidly increase COVID-19 screening and R&D activities at various locations for robust COVID testing.

DRDO was incepted in 1958 where only 10 laboratories were introduced to the research work in Defence sector. They were tasked with designing and developing cutting-edge defence technologies for the Indian Armed Forces.

Presently, DRDO is working in multiple cutting edge military technology platforms, which are - aeronautics, armaments, combat vehicles, electronics, instrumentation, engineering systems, missiles, materials, naval systems, advanced computing, simulation, cyber, life sciences and other defence technologies.

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