DRDO Centre of Excellence opens at IIT-Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Apr 17 (KNN) The Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) Industry Academia Centre of Excellence was inaugurated on Sunday by Secretary of the Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO, Samir V Kamat at the Technology Research Park at IIT-Hyderabad campus.

The centre was inaugurated in the presence of Director General (Missiles and Strategic Systems), BHVS Narayana Murthy, Director IIT-H Prof BS Murty, and Director DIA-CoE, G Ramaguru.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof Murty termed the centre as a major step towards achieving Atmanirbhar Bharat in the Defence sector.

“I am looking forward to the faculty of IIT-H working together with industry on DRDO problems to make India a global leader in each of the verticals assigned to the CoE”, he said.

As per reports, seven verticals of technology projects will be undertaken at DIA-CoE.

Addressing the occasion, Kamat said the DRDO along with the IIT-H team will work together and identify the target projects in each of these domains and execute to complete them in a period of 3 to 5 years. He also pointed out that the DIA CoE IIT-H was the country’s largest centre among all 15 DIA-CoEs.  (KNN Bureau)