IAF signs pact with IIT Delhi
Indian Air Force (IAF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi on Monday for various development projects to support the requirements of the former.
New Delhi: Indian Air Force (IAF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi on Monday for various development projects to support the requirements of the former.
The MoU was signed by Air Vice Marshal Samir VBorade VSM, Deputy Senior Maintenance Staff Officer (Dy SMSO), Headquarters Maintenance Command, IAF and Professor MR Ravi, Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi. As per the university announcement, the joint partnership between the two aims to accelerate IAF's indigenisation efforts for achieving self-reliance.
Under the ambit of the MoU, the IAF has identified key focus areas involving technology development and finding indigenous solutions towards sustenance of various weapon systems. The academic body will provide cooperation and consultancy, duly supported by research, for feasibility studies and prototype development.
"The partnership between IAF and IIT Delhi will significantly boost the efforts by Base Repair Depots (BRDs) of Maintenance Command IAF, towards enhancing sustenance capability, obsolescence management, indigenisation and achieving self-reliance," the institution said in a statement.
IIT Delhi had also established a Joint Advanced Technology Center in the year 2017 with funding from the DRDO.
Over 80 faculty members and close to 150 staff and PhD students are currently working on various defence related projects in the institute.
