"They may be small organisations but they do represent a step forward towards jointness among the Army, Navy and IAF," said a source. "It will be a small technology-intensive agency that will work closely with Isro and DRDO. The Navy, for instance, wants to retain control of its Rukmini (GSAT-7) satellite," said a source.The existing Defence Information Assurance and Research Agency, in turn, will be upgraded into the Defence Cyber Agency. It will primarily be "defensive" in nature, with "cyber offensives" being left to other agencies under the national security adviser. "A major issue was sorting out how the cyber agency will work under the country's information technology acts and legal provisions.

Source: Times of India November 04, 2017 23:26 UTC