Army organising symposium to determine indigenous defence applied sciences and {hardware}

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Northern Command of the Indian Army is holding a expertise Symposium to supply a platform to the Indian distributors in order that indigenous expertise and {hardware} might be recognized and used within the nation’s most lively areas of operation.

The Army in an announcement on Wednesday mentioned, “The symposium will pave the way to identify suitable technologies and products for subsequent trials and induction in Northern Command. As it will provide a unique platform to all vendors to come and showcase their products, innovations and technical capabilities.”

In whole 160 distributors have been invited. The initiative will improve the technical information base of the members via joint Army – Industry participation and acquaint everybody with the prevalent state of the expertise.

“It will establish an ecosystem which is one of a kind for promoting an environment for knowledge diffusion on contemporary defence technologies,” the Army mentioned.

North Tech Symposium is a significant occasion that’s carried out yearly and this yr it’s being carried out after a spot of two years as a consequence of COVID.

Northern Command takes care of lively borders with China and Pakistan alongside the Line of Actual Control and Line of Control respectively.

In addition, the counter-insurgency and counter-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir are additionally beneath its accountability.