DRDO Transfers Seven Revolutionary Applied sciences to Armed Forces

New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI)

From a long-life seawater battery system for sustained underwater sensing and surveillance purposes to a waterjet propulsion system for quick interceptor craft, the DRDO has handed over seven applied sciences to the armed forces, the federal government stated.

These applied sciences have been developed below the Expertise Growth Fund (TDF) scheme, the defence ministry stated on Friday (December 5, 2025).

“Defence Analysis and Growth Organisation (DRDO) has handed over seven applied sciences developed below the Expertise Growth Fund (TDF) scheme to the three Companies,” it stated in a press release.

“The applied sciences are — an indigenous high-voltage energy provide for airborne self-protection jammers, a tide-efficient gangway for naval jetties, superior very low frequency-high 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 long-life seawater battery system for sustained underwater sensing and surveillance purposes,” the ministry stated.

Every of those applied sciences or merchandise has been designed, developed and “extensively examined” by the Indian trade with shut collaboration and steerage of DRDO’s area specialists and the tri-services, “reinforcing the scheme’s deal with import substitution and important expertise improvement”, it stated.

The applied sciences had been handed over through the assembly of the Empowered Committee of DRDO held at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi on December 2 below the chairmanship of Secretary, Division of Defence R&D and Chairman of DRDO, Samir V. Kamat.

Senior representatives from the armed forces, Division of Defence Manufacturing and the DRDO additionally attended the assembly.

The Committee undertook detailed discussions on a large spectrum of venture proposals and permitted 12 new initiatives spanning throughout strategic, aerospace, naval and digital warfare applied sciences, the ministry stated.

“These approvals underscore the continued deal with constructing home functionality and lowering dependency on international applied sciences in essential and rising expertise areas,” it stated.

The Committee mentioned the approval method for varied classes of initiatives below the TDF and emphasised the necessity for expediting the end-to-end processing of the scheme’s initiatives to make sure timeliness and alignment with evolving strategic and technological necessities of the Companies.

The Committee additionally deliberated upon the roadmap of efficiently developed applied sciences and the methods which the following acquisition course of must be streamlined and executed seamlessly.

It really useful essential coverage alignment and enabling mechanisms to make sure sooner induction and operational deployment of the developed applied sciences, the ministry stated.

Addressing the contributors, the chairman of the DRDO reaffirmed the federal government’s dedication to strengthening indigenous defence innovation below the imaginative and prescient of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ by sooner execution of the TDF scheme.