IIT Roorkee Collaborates With DRDO To Develop Indigenous Defence Equipment

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and the Defence Research and Development Organization have collaborated with an aim to develop defence technology and produce indigenous defence equipment.

IIT Roorkee has collaborated with the Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL) of DRDO. this is to develop indigenous radio frequency power amplifiers to meet the needs of futuristic programmable radios, according to an official statement.

The program will be executed by a research group led by Professor Karun Rawat at IIT Roorkee and a group of scientists and engineers led by Pinaki Sen from DEAL, DRDO. These amplifiers were designed to fulfil the high-efficiency requirements (for thermal management) and good linearity for signal fidelity. The designs have been simultaneously optimized for Size, Weight and Power (SWaP).

These amplifier units have superior performance achieving high efficiency and gain while also considering good harmonic and intermodulation suppression, said IIT Roorkee.

The improvement in efficiency will result in a significant amount of heat load reduction, which will facilitate easy integration in the Programmable Radio chassis in the required form factor. The unit will be assembled with the indigenous radio units of DEAL, and DRDO, and will be manufactured by private domestic partners for mass production.

Professor Rawat said, “Keeping in tune with India’s mission for technological upgradation, the current research and development feat of technology focus is a glimpse of the improvements to existing capabilities and also bringing up new capabilities.”

As per the statement, this joint product development activity has proven synergy between the two organizations and will bolster the “Atmanirbhar Bharat” as well as the “Make in India” drive for upgrading many defence equipments of the Indian armed forces.

Also, admission to IIT Roorkee has begun for the academic year 2022-2023. Candidates can visit the official website of IIT Roorkee and check for the latest updates and further information on admission.

Professor Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee, said, “With Make in India emerging as a powerful beacon to guide the development of defence technologies, we need to synergise the strengths of the government research agencies, industries as well as academics institutions to make India a truly global player in major defense technologies and systems.”

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