The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has stressed the need to enhance the Information, Communications, Technology, Electronics and Cyber (ICTEC) infrastructure capabilities of the Indian Army to ensure protection from disruptive cyber-attacks and manipulations.

Addressing the inaugural function of the two day long DEFCOM-2015, Parrikar said, while we progress through the use of ICTEC and make the army more digitalised, the other danger is disruption by the adversaries. "My worry is information black out which can result out of disruptive mechanisms" he said. The minister said that the future wars may be in the form of cyber wars but he strongly felt that the conventional armies cannot be replaced and should be equipped by providing them the information to fight in a well decided, equipped and planned manner.

Describing India as source of human intelligence he said, we have been in the forefront of software development and now there is a need to go into better hardware designing and integration in our streams.

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