He shared that the event would focus more on emerging and disruptive technologies to keep pace with the country’s changing security requirements.
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The Indian Navy is going to host the ‘Swavlamban 2025’, a seminar on innovation and indigenisation with focus on technological advances to enhance country’s defence capabilities in the evolving times.
Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff Sanjay Vatsayan, while highlighting key features of Swavlamban 2025, remarked that the event would not only highlight the maritime force’s innovation and indigenisation but also the efforts and the contributions of the Indian industry with a focus on technological advances.
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He shared that the event would focus more on emerging and disruptive technologies to keep pace with the country’s changing security requirements.
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The VCNS outlined the Navy’s steady strides toward Aatmanirbharta in defence technologies, aligned with the Swavlamban 2025 theme, “Strength and Power through Innovation and Indigenisation”, which highlights the maritime force’s focus on collaborative and cutting-edge solutions for operational challenges.
This year’s seminar will include dedicated exhibit zones highlighting products that have emerged as success stories and those realised through the ‘ideation to induction’ cycle, he said.
According to the VCNS, the Swavlamban seminars have been pivotal in galvanising the engagement of startups and MSMEs, nurturing not only niche technologies but holistic, end-to-end solutions that have a direct bearing on both efficiency and the felt needs of the users.
He informed that the Indian Navy has been at the forefront, leading the number of iDEX challenges, increasing its ownership to 35 per cent of all iDEX challenges undertaken since inception.
Swavlamban 2022, for example, saw the launch of 75 challenges under the ‘SPRINT’ initiative — surpassing the cumulative number of previous defence startup challenges and establishing a watershed event in the growth of the iDEX ecosystem, he said.
He added that the impact has been more than numerical, with the confidence placed in MSMEs and startups by the service itself.
The enhanced stature of these players as critical solution providers and the unprecedented increase in stakeholder engagement speak of a cultural transformation in defence innovation, he said.
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