New Delhi, March 15: In a first, the Army on Tuesday initiated the order to procure technology developed under the Innovations for Defense Excellence (iDEX) project.
The Army in a statement said, “The contract for procurement of an indigenously developed Integrated Mobile Camouflague System (IMCS) for mechanized forces was signed with Indian StaryUp Hyper Stealth Technologies on Tuesday in the presence of Lieutenant General J.B. Chaudhari, Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Anurag Bajpai, Joint Secretary, Department of Defence production”
The Integrated Mobile Camouflague System provides the ability for the Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) to merge with a terrain background.
“IMCS will achieve a reduction in the detection range of AFV when viewed through Hand Held Thermal Imager/Battle Field Surveillance Radar Tank-based thermal camera under given environmental and weather conditions and signature management by controlling the visual, thermal, infra-red and radar signatures of object.”
IDEX was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 with an aim to create an ecosystem to foster innovation and encourage technological development in defense and aero space by engaging R & D institutes, academia, industries including MSMEs, StartUps, and individual innovators.
Currently, there are a total of 48 projects of the Indian Army as part of Defense India StartUp Challenge (DISC), Open challenges, iDEX 4 Fauji and iDEX PRIME scheme which involves handholding of 41 Startups for the development of the latest state of art solutions for the challenges faced by Indian Army.
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