Cochin Shipyard (CSL) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) for working together to create a partnership for the export of defence vessels built by the shipyard which will be equipped with defence systems, inclusive of weapons and sensors developed by the DRDO and manufactured using its industrial partners.
The signing of the MOI was held at the Defence Industry Development Meet chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman on January 18. S. Christopher, Chairman of DRDO and Secretary, Defence R&D, exchanged the MoI with Madhu S. Nair, Chairman and Managing Director, CSL, in the presence of S. Kedarnath Shenoy, Director of the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), a DRDO lab located at Thrikkakara.
