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Towards the Integration of Emerging Technologies in India’s Armed Forces

24 Feb 2023

The application of emerging technologies will play a key role in the performance of India’s armed forces. All three services understand the significance of these technological innovations in modern warfare, although their development has been uneven across the branches. This analysis provides an overview of how far the three services of the Indian armed forces have gone in integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber technology, and quantum technology in their ecosystems. It evaluates the differences in their approaches, and explores the regulatory, institutional and legal issues that may be impeding efforts of the armed services to leverage frontier technologies. Attribution: Harsh V Pant and Kartik Bommakanti, “Towards the Integration of Emerging Technologies in India’s Armed Forces,” ORF Occasional Paper No. 392 , February 2023, Observer Research Foundation. AI Armed Forces cyber technology India Indian Military Military Quantum technology weapons systems Introduction A wide range of emerging technologies have military applications. This paper examines three—cyber technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Quantum Technology (QT)—and the extent of their incorporation across India’s armed services. While all the branches of the military recognise the importance of emerging technologies, they have yet to leverage their utility. Among the emerging technologies with military use, the application of cyber technology is the most evolved. Today there is greater awareness within the services about this emerging technology than even just a decade ago. AI, meanwhile, has had its uses for India’s armed forces for some time now, in various forms that include Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). In the domain of Quantum technology, efforts of the three services are still nascent and an evaluation of its impact on the Indian military may be premature.
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Harsh V. Pant, Kartik Bommakanti

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