The Defense and Strategic Industries Association (DISA) is India’s leading Defense Industry Association promoting hi-tech commerce.
DISA is proud to provide legal and an ethical forum for the exchange of information between the industry and Government on defense modernization issues and provide leadership to build India’s defense industrial complex.
Our members aim at development of the most innovative and superior equipment, training and support for our national security goals.
Our Founder President
Shri Prakash C Tripathi
Prakash C Tripathi is the founder President of the Defense and Strategic Industries Association of India.
A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, he last served as Joint Director General of Foreign Trade in the Government of India.
He has decade long experience in designing national export control systems and policies to promote high technology commerce, technology transfer and foreign direct investment services in dual-use technologies.
In Business since 2013
DISA, founded in 2013 is a registered non-profit organization.
It is founded by a group of ex-IITians from India and abroad keen to build India's emerging high-tech economy through participation in the defense industrial sector.
This group of entrepreneurs and innovators currently own more than 100 patents worldwide in various sectors of technology. Predominantly in the IT, special materials, bio-medical and nano sciences.
What we seek to do
Platform for SME's
Bring High-Tech SME's under a common platform to build a sustainable supply-chain for high-tech commerce.
Partner with government to improve regulatory and legal environment and make it conducive to rapid growth of R&D and technology intensive products and services.
Increase share of export of high-tech goods and services from India to 20% by 2020 which today constitutes 7% of total exports.
Our Members
Our members are from across varied specialized zones in almost every aspect of high end defense technology.
They posses strong R&D platforms and commitment to remain at the cutting edge.
Delivering matchless cost effective and development capabilities.
- Turn key solutions based on leading edge innovations and inventions.
- Robust IPR protection and technology transfer goals.
- Building client capacity through continuous collaboration and knowledge sharing.
