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News Updates

3rd Edition of the INDUS-X

09 September 2024

3rd Edition of the INDUS-X Summit convenes at Stanford University, California, USA on 09-10 Sep 2024. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between iDEX and the Defence Innovation Unit (DIU). Other highlights included announcement of a new challenge , announcement of pilot case for testing consortium, release of the INDUS-X Impact Report and launch of the official INDUS-X webpage.

iDEX Investor Hub iIH launched

15 February 2023

iDEX Investor Hub (iIH) was launched by Hon’ble Raksha Mantri during Manthan at Aero-India 2023, to accelerate investments in the Defence sector with a pledged investment of over Rs 200Cr from 9 leading investors to augment the growth of the startup ecosystem.

9th edition of Defence India Startup Challenge DISC 9

15 February 2023

Hon’ble Raksha Mantri launched the 9th edition of Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC-9) with 28 problem statements on the theme of “Cyber Security” from Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Airforce, Defence PSUs, and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

4th edition of Innovate 4 Defence i4D

15 February 2023

4th edition of Innovate4Defence (i4D) - a 45-day internship program was launched by Hon’ble Raksha Mantri during Manthan at Aero-India 2023 for students of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in India.

Startup visit at INS Hansa

09 February 2023

"IDEX winner Skylark Labs India Pvt. Ltd., visited Indian Naval Air Stations in Goa and Visakhapatnam and collected data pertaining to challenge awarded. The visit will help in progress of their ongoing DISC 7 (SPRINT) Challenge “Al-based Foreign Object Detection (FOD) System” for the Indian Navy. This cutting-edge technology will enhance the safety and efficiency of the Naval air strips".

Review meeting of Navy SPRINT Cases

05 January 2023

Vice chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral S N Ghormade took the review meeting with iDEX and NIIO for SPRINT cases on 5th Jan 2023

iDEX signs its 50th SPRINT contract

04 January 2023

iDEX signs its 50th SPRINT contract with Sagar Defence in the presence of RAdm Arjun Dev Nair, ACNS (SR), RAdm K Srinivas, ACOM (Mod) & Cmde A P Golaya, Oi/C TDAC on 4th January, 2022.

iDEX signed 150th contract

22 December 2022

Aatmanirbhar Bharat:-iDEX-DIO signs 150th contract for defence innovation on Expendable Mobile Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Target capable of simulating sound & movement of a submarine

Cut of Dates

11 October 2022

Clarification of cut-off dates for applicability of maximum limit of active contracts in iDEX
1. The cut-off date of eligibility will be counted as per the last date of application as per the DISC/OC.
2. Till the time 5th milestone is completed and the final tranche is disbursed, the contract will be counted as active.

Maximum limit of active contracts in iDEX

16 August 2022

iDEX-DIO is happy to inform that the number of active contracts with iDEX winners at any time have been increased up to five contracts.

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