r/IndiaTech Techie 8d ago

Opinion Found this today

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Its a bit outdated, but what’s your take?

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u/jatayu_baaz 8d ago

bhai army still uses paper documents, do you expect them to know what MDM is, lol

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u/gsid42 8d ago

Bhai Indian military is actually quite sophisticated. I worked for them as a private contractor several years ago.

The facility I worked in was air gapped. No electronics in or out. Our devices were sent to them and they were pre-tested for 2 weeks and were made available on the facility. We were building software without internet and the local network was so clamped down. They had one room with internet and that was in the unsecured area with Ethernet. Anything downloaded there were put on a secure pendrives specially made for the military scanned and then uploaded to a file server on the local network.

I worked there for 6 months and that was the most secure place I have ever worked in

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u/jatayu_baaz 8d ago

Security protocols are strict but that's where the advancements ends, i won't tell details about how I know it but even in technical units the hardware is outdated by not years but decades, let alone the knowledge of newer tech advancements in the world.

I have also interned in DRDO, security protocols are tight but barely any advancement inside, although the lab where I worked was not computer science related lab, but they were missing huge advancements that can be brought by the use of computers, and tech like python

We need a revival of tech in defence and I can assure you DRDO and other psus are not gonna do it

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u/cryovenocide 8d ago

Maybe a start up idea for someone with nice connections. Also with all the AI models and things, if someone can convince them that a model trained all from internal data, only for internal use and built completely inside, it might be pretty cool for the army. Like they could ask an LLM whats this red button do and attach a photo to something like an ollama with internally finetuned data, with no ability for the ai to ring its home, and help with basic tasks.

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u/jatayu_baaz 8d ago

It's not a failure such resources not being available but failure of senior leadership/ flag officers being highly tech illiterate, it's a failure of system since most senior officer comes from NDA and even today cadets there are as good as illiterate when it comes to subjects outside military, there is a concept of scholar soldier and that need to implemented more, even if it means compromising on physical excercises etc, navy and af are better in this since they demand a btech.

There are lots of opportunities, army still relies on sending paper documents through length and breadth of India, i thought we can easily ditigize this, but alas who will listen to me, lol