The council of Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), which met at IIT Delhi recently, discussed about the emerging trends and priorities in indigenous defence technologies.
Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI) is one of the oldest society of India formed in 1948 to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of Aeronautical and aerospace science/technologies and has 17 branches all over India representing 13,000 plus professionals.
Dr. R K Tyagi, President AeSI and independent Director on Board of Air India informed that AeSI is working on a approach paper to be submitted to new government on aerospace and defence priorities for next five years.
The AeSI council also discussed about the strategy to enhance the role of MSMEs in aerospace and defence.
The institute lecture was jointly organized by AeSI & JATC (joint advanced technology centre). Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO spoke about DRDO’s initiatives in hand-holding of industry partners, encouraging applied research in industry, skilling efforts in aerospace and defence and recent government initiatives like in Make in India, Technology development and innovation in defence R&D and exports.
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