The Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh, launched the 5th edition of the Defence India Start-up Challenge (DISC).
The DISC was launched under Innovations for Defence Excellence – Defence Innovation Organisation (iDEX-DIO).
This challenge is meant to achieve self-reliance and foster innovation and technology development across the defence and aerospace sectors.
This challenge was launched by the Ministry in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission.
It was launched with the aim of providing support to Startups, MSMEs and Innovators to create prototypes or commercialize products and solutions in the fields of National Defence and Security.