Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO)
Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO)
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
Greetings from Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO) !!
About us - Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) is the operational framework of the Defence Innovation Organization (DIO), that functionally works under the aegis of the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence. iDEX initiative was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister in April 2018 to achieve self-reliance and foster innovation and technology development in Defence and Aerospace sectors. iDEX engages industries including MSMEs, startups, individual innovators, R&D institutes and academia. iDEX is now being scaled up to support as many startups to evolve innovative products through the startup ecosystem in the next five years. We have a complete ecosystem of co-development and co-creation through involvement of various stake holders like Nodal agencies (Armed forces/DPSUs), Partner Incubators (incubation centers of premium institutes like IITs/IISc/IIMs) and Defence QA agencies who get associated with iDEX for supporting the startups in the process of product development. iDEX initiative is included in the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 as a procurement avenue.
Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) is the flagship program of iDEX wherein challenges from Armed Forces/ Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) are launched to get innovative solutions from startups/MSMEs/Individual innovators. We at iDEX are happy to announce that the Hon’ble Raksha Mantri has launched DISC 5 with 35 Problem Statements received from the three armed forces and DPSUs on August 19, 2021.
For more information about the challenges, please visit https://idex.gov.in/disc-category/17
To apply please click https://idex.gov.in/form/application-form-defence-india-d
The last date for submission of the application is 8th Oct 2021.
A set of DISC 5.0 promos are attached herewith to this email to extend wide outreach with startups/individual innovators associated with your institutes/TBI. We request your support for reaching out to our young minds, entrepreneurs, startups and MSMEs to align them with the excellent opportunities that iDEX framework offers (through these challenges) and thus enabling them to make our nation self reliant particularly in the field of Defence and Aerospace sector.
We are also planning to have a Virtual roadshow/outreach session at 3 PM on 23 September 2021 to apprise the potential DISC 5 aspirants to know about the iDEX journey and the benefits that iDEX framework render to the DISC winners.
The link to join the session is -
https://idex-dio.webex.com/idex-dio/j.php?MTID=m55ebf191e333d03b9e07a09c3a51a22c
Join by Meeting Number
Meeting number: 2519 486 2778
Password: DISC
Greetings from Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO) !!
About us - Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) is the operational framework of the Defence Innovation Organization (DIO), that functionally works under the aegis of the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence. iDEX initiative was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister in April 2018 to achieve self-reliance and foster innovation and technology development in Defence and Aerospace sectors. iDEX engages industries including MSMEs, startups, individual innovators, R&D institutes and academia. iDEX is now being scaled up to support as many startups to evolve innovative products through the startup ecosystem in the next five years. We have a complete ecosystem of co-development and co-creation through involvement of various stake holders like Nodal agencies (Armed forces/DPSUs), Partner Incubators (incubation centers of premium institutes like IITs/IISc/IIMs) and Defence QA agencies who get associated with iDEX for supporting the startups in the process of product development. iDEX initiative is included in the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 as a procurement avenue.
Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) is the flagship program of iDEX wherein challenges from Armed Forces/ Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) are launched to get innovative solutions from startups/MSMEs/Individual innovators. We at iDEX are happy to announce that the Hon’ble Raksha Mantri has launched DISC 5 with 35 Problem Statements received from the three armed forces and DPSUs on August 19, 2021.
For more information about the challenges, please visit https://idex.gov.in/disc-category/17
To apply please click https://idex.gov.in/form/application-form-defence-india-d
The last date for submission of the application is 8th Oct 2021.
A set of DISC 5.0 promos are attached herewith to this email to extend wide outreach with startups/individual innovators associated with your institutes/TBI. We request your support for reaching out to our young minds, entrepreneurs, startups and MSMEs to align them with the excellent opportunities that iDEX framework offers (through these challenges) and thus enabling them to make our nation self reliant particularly in the field of Defence and Aerospace sector.
We are also planning to have a Virtual roadshow/outreach session at 3 PM on 23 September 2021 to apprise the potential DISC 5 aspirants to know about the iDEX journey and the benefits that iDEX framework render to the DISC winners.
The link to join the session is -
https://idex-dio.webex.com/idex-dio/j.php?MTID=m55ebf191e333d03b9e07a09c3a51a22c
Join by Meeting Number
Meeting number: 2519 486 2778
Password: DISC