Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Industry Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE), the biggest in the country, was inaugurated at the Indian Institutes of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H).  

The centre will take up futuristic projects towards long-term directed research needed for DRDO. 

There are seven verticals of technology projects that will be undertaken:- 

• Ultra-High Temperature materials 

• Additive manufacturing, 

• Space Technologies, 

• AI for defence, 

• Image processing, 

• Seekers and Homing Technologies, 

• Nano-ornithopter Technologies 

IITH's director, Professor B S Murty, said, “This centre is a major step towards Atmabibhar Bharat in the Defence sector. I am looking forward to the faculty of IITH working together with industry on DRDO problems to make India a global leader in each vertical assigned to the CoE.” 

He said that the IITH has a young faculty base with an average age of 38 years, and hence the DRDO projects are a good challenge for them.