Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan urged the industry, R&D organisations, and the three services to embrace fusion and synergy in order to achieve ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence and make India a ‘Sashakt, Surakshit & Viksit Bharat’
General Chauhan, who on Thursday, virtually inaugurated a two-day National Conference on Technology Management (TECHMA 2024), organised by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) at the Institute of Technology Management, Mussoorie, with the aim of aligning India's defence technologies with the national objective of becoming self-reliant by 2047, stressed the need to change the mindset to keep pace with the evolving times.
Futuristic defence technologies, technology management with a strategic vision for 2047, project management excellence in defence and value engineering and commercialisation are the themes of TECHMA 2024.
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General Chauhan spoke about the importance of coming up with innovative and unique ideas that can prove to be advantageous to the Armed Forces and in turn the nation.
“The insights gained from TECHMA-2024 are expected to strengthen India’s indigenous R&D ecosystem, identify multidisciplinary research areas, improve project management processes and develop solutions for future defence technologies to overcome technical, logistical, and implementation challenges, ensuring India becomes a global leader by 2047,” the defence ministry said in a statement.