Defence and communication talk

On November 8-9, the Defcom – 2012 seminar was organised jointly by the Integrated HQ of Ministry of Defence (Army), Corp of Defence Signals and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Speaking at the event Defence Minister AK Antony said that the single biggest challenge facing societies and nations is the vulnerability of communication and network devices to attacks, or threats in the electronic, cyber as well as physical domain. Chief of Army Staff General Bikram Singh said that the guiding objective is to achieve self-reliance and technical sovereignty in TCS through indigenisation of designs. He said that while there are challenges in realising the objective, the army, industry and academia should indeed look at the new opportunities in the ICTEC domain.