⇒ Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Directorate of Defence Research and Development (DDR&D), Ministry of Defence, Israel have entered into a Bilateral Innovation Agreement (BIA) for development of dual use technologies.
The agreement has been signed to promote innovation and accelerated R&D in startups and MSMEs of both countries for the development of dual use technologies.
Under the agreement, startups and industry of both countries will work together to bring out next generation technologies and products in the following areas:
Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum technology, Photonics, Biosensing, Brain-Machine Interface, Energy Storage, Wearable Devices, Natural Language Processing, etc.
- The development efforts will be jointly funded by DRDO and DDR&D, Israel.