The Minister of State for Defence Shri
MM Pallam Raju has called upon defence scientists
to come out of their cocoons. Addressing
an MoU Signing Ceremony under the DRDO-FICCI
Accelerated Technology Assessment and Commercialization
(ATAC) Programme here today, Shri Pallam
Raju asked the private industry to become
motivational tools for the scientists. Some
of the technologies developed by the DRDO’s
50 laboratories spread across the country
have immense applications in industry and
everyday life and the ATAC programme has
successfully harnessed the spin-offs of
defence technology, he added.
Dr V K Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to
Defence Minister and Director General (Defence
R&D) said the DRDO has unveiled a robust
programme of collaborating with the Industry,
both PSUs and Private, and Academies. The
Academicians will help in Innovation and
the Industry in Delivery while the DRDO
would serve as their interface, he added.
Over 100 scientists from as many as 26 DRDO
laboratories have been exposed with the
Industry under the two-year-old ATAC programme,
said Dr. Prahlada, Chief Controller R&D
(Services Interaction), DRDO. In his opening
remarks, Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General,
FICCI said 45 technologies including Explosive
Detection Kit, HAPO Chamber, Electrochromic
Glass, RO-based Mobile Water Purification
System and DEPA Multi-Insect Repellant Cream
have already been identified for commercial
exploitation through the ATAC process.
Six MoUs for Technology Transfer between
DRDO and industry houses were signed on
the occasion.