Agnishodh and Project SAMBHAV:
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), General Upendra Dwivedi, inaugurated ‘Agnishodh’, the Indian Army Research Cell (IARC), at the IIT Madras campus. The COAS also highlighted Project SAMBHAV (Secure Army Mobile Bharat Vision) as a key tech initiative for secure communication.
- Agnishodh serves as a bridge between academic research and military needs, converting lab-scale innovations into field-ready defence technologies.
- It is aligned with Indian Army Five Pillars of Transformation encompassing technology absorption, structural changes, human resource development and increasing cohesion between the three services.
- Agnishodh focuses on areas like Artificial Intelligence, Quantum computing, cybersecurity, wireless communication, and unmanned systems.
- It also aims to upskill military personnel in these emerging domains, building a tech-savvy defence workforce.
- Agnishodh reflects the Army’s focus on modern and psychological warfare, and its push for self-reliance through national technology missions like INDIAai and Chip-to-Startup.
- Project SAMBHAV launched under the Indian Army’s 2024 Year of Technology Absorption, SAMBHAV is a secure, 5G-based, network-agnostic mobile system.
- It enables instant and encrypted communication on the move, even in remote or high-risk operational areas.
- SAMBHAV is designed to boost battlefield communication, making it faster, more secure, and reliable.
