Other Names: MPD

Address: Simhagad Road, Girinagar, Pune-411025, Maharashtra, India

Telephone: Unlisted

Fax: Unlisted

E-mail: root@driat.drdo.com

Director: Unlisted

Subordinate to: Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense

Primary Function: Impart higher education and training in various fields of science and technology focusing on defence requirements, specifically weapons systems.

Description: The Institute of Armament Technology (IAT) grew out of the Institute of Armament Studies, which was established at the College of Military Engineering at Dapodi, Pune in 1952. Technical courses at the institute were initially offered to army officers. But later, courses were added to satisfy the requirements of the three armed services, the DRDO, Defense Ordnance Factories, Defense Quality Assurance, Defense Aeronautical Quality Assurance, and other public sector entities. In 1967, IAT was shifted to a new location at Girinagar, Pune.

Activities:

The mission of the IAT is to function as an institute of higher education in science and technology fields that have a direct correlation to defense requirements, especially weapon systems. In the field of guided missiles, the institute offers courses in "missile guidance and control, missile aerodynamics, structures, configurations, and propulsion, guidance signal processing, computational fluid dynamics, flight dynamics, missile design, combustion, missiles system analysis, and simulation."

• Among other areas, the institute offers "excellent research facilities" in the areas of experimental stress analysis, shock and vibration, propulsion, guidance, control, and instrumentation, wind tunnel testing, gas turbine technologies, polymers, composites, and instrumentation.
• The IAT has offered courses for personnel from Bharat Dynamics Limited and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

Key Sources:
Defence Research & Development Organization, "Institute of Armament Technology," <http://www.drdo.org/labs/mpd/iat/index.shtml>.

	Updated July 2003