We study what India's security forces need, then build it in India.
An independent non-profit serving India's public safety, defence and emergency response forces. Alongside the research we run an engineering team, so what we recommend we can also build.
Focus areas
Four pillars
Defence Training & Doctrine Support
We help departments design, modernise and evaluate their training programmes, and we bring current methods and instrumentation to how personnel are prepared.
Technology for Social Welfare
We engineer deployable systems for public benefit: tools that outlast a single programme and can be handed to whoever runs the next one.
Field R&D & Sensing Systems
Rugged networked hardware for monitoring, detection and response in remote and contested places, from mesh networking to acoustic sensing.
Capacity & Readiness
Help standing up quick-response units, disaster-response readiness and industrial security preparedness.
Featured project
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PHYTRE — Physical Security Tactical Research and Exercises
Cyber security teams have MITRE ATT&CK. Physical security has no widely used equivalent. PHYTRE models an intrusion into a protected site as a chain of stages, organised by what the adversary is trying to achieve, so drills and audits can be built around a realistic adversary.
Version 0.1 is in development with practitioners, and is shared only with vetted organisations.
Ongoing R&D
All projects →Disaster-response comms kit
Portable mesh communications for teams operating where infrastructure has failed.
TALON Edge device
GPS-enabled edge node with an integrated camera and IR night vision. It feeds event-triggered captures into the TALON mesh.
Low-cost welfare sensing
Affordable environmental and safety sensing for under-served communities.
Acoustic classification models
On-device models to distinguish threat sounds from ambient forest audio.
News & updates
LatestFoundation formalises training-support engagement with a state security establishment
TALON mesh network completes first overnight field trial in a Uttarakhand forest division with 100% image-transfer success
Convergent Defense Foundation incorporated as a Section 8 company
There is more than one way to work with us.
For Defense Departments
→Engage us for training-programme support, readiness building and field technology development.
For Industry & R&D
→Collaborate on hardware, sensing and networked systems for public and mission use.
For CSR & Donors
→Fund welfare technology. Any surplus goes back into the work.
Careers
→We hire engineers, programme leads and field researchers.