India, Dec. 2 -- The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has sanctioned a total of 148 new research and development projects in the last three years, the Government informed Parliament on Monday.
Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth, in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha, also said the Department of Defence Research and Development has a policy and mechanism for collaborative research in developing critical and futuristic technologies for defence and security applications through a network of DRDO Industry Academia-Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE).
"A total of 15 DIA-CoEs have been established, which are steering translational research activities in nearly 82 identified research verticals," he said. The minis...