Major Achievements

• DRDO has a Long Term Directed Research Policy for establishment of DIA-COE at academic institutes for having long term research collaborations with academia & industries.
• Established 15 DIA-COEs at premier academic institutes like IITs, IISc and Central universities.
• Many technologies such as smart solider jacket, extreme cold weather jacket, graphene ultra capacitors, fault tolerant electronics, new high energy materials, high energetic slurry fuels, indigenous software defined networks, piezo MEMS based sensors etc. are in advanced stage of development and testing.
• DIA-COEs have taken up research under more than 65 research areas engaging more than 1200 faculties, researchers, scientists and industries through projects.