Defence Analysis and Growth Organisation (DRDO) has handed over seven applied sciences developed below the Expertise Growth Fund (TDF) scheme to the three Providers. The applied sciences are: an Indigenous Excessive-Voltage Energy Provide for Airborne Self-Safety Jammers; A Tide-Environment friendly Gangway for Naval Jetties; Superior Very Low Frequency-Excessive Frequency Switching Matrix Techniques; VLF loop Aerials for Underwater Platforms; Indigenous Waterjet Propulsion System for Quick Interceptor Craft; A Novel Course of for Restoration of Lithium Precursors from used Lithium-ion Batteries and A Lengthy-life Seawater Battery System for Sustained Underwater Sensing and Surveillance Functions.
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Every of those applied sciences/merchandise has been designed, developed & extensively examined by the Indian Business with shut collaboration and steerage of DRDO area specialists & Tri-services, reinforcing the scheme’s concentrate on import substitution and demanding expertise growth. The applied sciences have been handed over through the assembly of Empowered Committee of DRDO held at DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi on December 02, 2025 below the chairmanship of Secretary, Division of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO Dr Samir V Kamat. Senior representatives from the Armed Forces, Division of Defence Manufacturing and DRDO additionally attended the assembly.
The Committee undertook detailed discussions on a large spectrum of tasks proposals and permitted 12 new tasks spanning throughout strategic, aerospace, naval and digital warfare applied sciences. These approvals underscore the continued concentrate on constructing home functionality and decreasing dependency on overseas applied sciences in essential and rising expertise areas.
The Committee mentioned the approval strategy for varied classes of tasks below the TDF and emphasised on the necessity for expediting the end-to-end processing of the scheme’s tasks to make sure timeliness and alignment with evolving strategic and technological necessities of the Providers.
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The Committee additionally deliberated upon the roadmap of efficiently developed applied sciences and the methods how the following acquisition course of must be streamlined and executed seamlessly. It beneficial necessary coverage alignment and enabling mechanisms to make sure quicker induction & operational deployment of the developed applied sciences.
Addressing the contributors, Chairman DRDO reaffirmed the Authorities’s dedication to strengthening indigenous defence innovation below the imaginative and prescient of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ via quicker execution of TDF scheme.
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