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DRDO plans to set up commercial arm

The Defence Research and Development Organisation which has been mainly involved in the development of military technology for the last five decades is planning to diversify and go commercial.

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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which has been mainly involved in the development of military technology for the last five decades is planning to diversify and go commercial.

While plans to go commercial would involve setting up a commercial arm on the lines of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Antrix Corporation to aggressively market its spin-off technologies, the objective to diversify is to assist the civilian society.

In order to realise this goal, a commission formed by DRDO has already conducted an internal deliberation on the issue and is awaiting nod from the defence ministry and the cabinet committee on security.

Further, DRDO is already in a franchisee kind of agreement with the federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) to market about 20 DRDO-licensed products for civilian application.

So far nine products have been have been licensed for civilian application.

Besides, DRDO will also be involved in the development of a number of customised technologies for the para-military forces for use in low intensity conflicts and for carrying out surveillance in the borders.

In addition, DRDO is also looking at the options of exporting the missiles like the Akash and Nag in the future.

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