DRDO Chairman calls for collaborative defence research ecosystem in India

Secretary of Defence R&D and DRDO Chairman Samir V. Kamat emphasised the request for India to rapidly found a collaborative ecosystem wherever academia focuses connected aboriginal development, portion laboratories, start-ups, and MSMEs thrust merchandise deployment, aiming to make caller technologies wrong 3 to 5 years alternatively of lengthy cycles.

Mr. Kamat Interacted with the enactment and module members of SRM University-A.P. arsenic portion of his sojourn to the field to fortify probe information of emerging acquisition institutes successful India towards nationalist defence exertion and research. He appreciated the ongoing probe connected Accelerated Materials Development utilizing Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) led by Dean-Research of SRM University-A.P.Ranjit Thapa.

Mr. Kamat said that universities and backstage institutions had a beardown relation to play successful strengthening defence innovation and research. “The increasing engagement of universities is seen arsenic captious to achieving nationalist exertion enactment and self-reliance,” helium said. The DRDO Chairman advised SRM University-A.P. to collaborate intimately with scientists from specialised DRDO laboratories to beforehand its probe initiatives.

SRM Group of Institutions Research Executive Director D. Narayana Rao presented a broad overview of the university, highlighting multi-disciplinary programmes and research-intensive curriculum.

Faculty members discussed existent probe pursuits successful the emerging areas of AI, quantum technologies and computing, and greenish hydrogen. The probe connected Development of Quantum Navigation System (QNS) without GPS and fabrication of Quantum Sensors, led by Jatis Kumar Dash from the Department of Physics and colleagues, was lauded.

SRM University-A.P. Pro-Chancellor P. Sathyanarayanan said the management’s imaginativeness was to alteration the assemblage into a world-class institution, distinguished for its excellence successful emerging domains specified arsenic Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technologies, Green Hydrogen, and Health Engineering, portion actively contributing to the nation’s defence probe ecosystem.

Assistant Dean-Research Mahesh Kumar Ravva, Associate Dean-Technology Transfer Cell G.S. Vinodkumar and Associate Professors Pardha Saradhi Maram and Sujith Kalluri from SRM University-A.P. besides participated successful the interaction.