He said DRDO has made major strides to ensure that needs of the services are met by providing various weapon systems. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh in his address stated that Indian Navy is efficiently using Varunastra, Maareech, Ushus, TAL and various other DRDO-developed systems Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria lauded the capabilities of Light Combat Aircraft Tejas and asked DRDO to develop next generation aircraft Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), harnessing the technologies and experience of LCA. He said DRDO has been able to achieve the objectives of self-reliance to a great extent in the past seven decades. Bhadauria appreciated the organisation's role in electronic warfare technologies, radars, composite materials for LCA, astra and other systems.

DRDO cheif G Satheesh Reddy spoke of various technologies developed by DRDO. He said the theme of the conference - Technology leadership for empowering India- was in line with the requirement to develop indigenous systems with advanced technologies. Singh also released two compendia - 'DRDO-Industry Partnership: Synergy' and 'Growth and DRDO Products with Potential for Export'. DRDO Policy and Procedures for Transfer of Technology to support industry was also released by him. He also launched the new website of DRDO. Chitra Rajagopal, DG (SAM) said modernisation of armed forces was a continuous process based on threat perception, operational challenges and technological changes and DRDO was committed to equip our armed forces with Internationally competitive systems, giving then a decisive edge in the battlefield A conference is an annual event where a number of brainstorming sessions are planned over two days.

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