DRDO and IIT-Kharagpur to take defence technologies to new heights

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur are coming together to achieve self-reliance in select defence technologies through joint research.

DRDO director general Dr S Christopher, who was honoured with the Distinguished Alumnus Award at the IIT campus in West Bengal, signed a memorandum to facilitate research and training in areas of mutual interest by supplementing the resources of both the institutions, reported PTI.

According to a statement, the agreement would also enhance the quality of human resource by virtue of advanced training and exchange of knowledge.

Tentative areas of collaborative research would be cyber physical systems, information security, life science, energy storage devices and materials and underwater vehicles.

The directed basic and applied research initiatives would be aimed to achieve self-reliance in select defence technologies, it said.

The agreement would also facilitate the bilateral mobility of faculty, researchers and students and resource sharing between both institutions, it added.

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