DRDO, IIT Delhi, firms sign MoUs for protective clothing production

24 Dec '24

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DRDO, IIT Delhi, firms sign MoUs for protective clothing production

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Ten pacts have been signed among the DRDO, IIT Delhi and industry partners.
These include those on transferring technology of light-weight bullet-resistant jacket to Mishra Dhatu Nigam, Rohtak; SMPP Pvt Ltd, Delhi; and AR Polymers, Kanpur; and for limited series production of extreme heat protective clothing with Arrow Garments and two other companies based in Delhi.

Ten tripartite agreements were recently signed among the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) and industry partners

These include agreements to transfer technology of light-weight bullet-resistant jacket called advanced ballistic high energy defeat (ABHED) to Mishra Dhatu Nigam in Rohtak, SMPP Pvt Ltd in Delhi and AR Polymers in Kanpur, a group company of MKU Ltd.

Memoranda of understanding were also signed for limited series production of extreme heat protective clothing with Arrow Garments in Tirupur, Aeronav Industrial Safety Appliance in Delhi and Katalyst TECHTEX Ltd in Delhi, a release from the ministry of defence said.

The agreements were signed at an event titled ‘DRDO-Industry-Academia - Global Approach to Readiness of Indigenous Military Applications’ (DIA-GARIMA)’, organised by the DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE) at IIT Delhi.

DIA-CoEs are being facilitated by the Directorate of Futuristic Technology Management (DFTM) under DRDO’s technology management cluster.

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