The Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington has launched DRONA 2.0 (DSSC Resource Optimising Neural Al 2.0) GPT, a multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) application intended to support training, research and academic activities at the institution.
DRONA 2.0 was launched on 18 August, 2026 by Lieutenant General Manish Erry, Commandant DSSC, in the presence of Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Co-Founder of Sarvam Al.
According to the Indian Army, DRONA 2.0 integrates Sarvam AI’s indigenous Sarvam 105B large language model (LLM) with open-source LLMs.
The application underwent audits by HQ Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) and the Defence Cyber Agency (DCyA) before certification.
The DRONA 2.0 GPT has multimodal features like reasoning, document inferencing, image recognition/ generation, text to speech/ speech to text, translation/ transliteration, podcast/ ppt generation and tools for data analytics.
It has been pre-trained on a large repository of the academic content residing at DSSC. Access to the application will aid the faculty and students of DSSC in their access of information towards advanced studies and research in the field of Defence and Strategic Studies.
DSSC has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sarvam Al for further development of the DRONA GPT and other Al-based applications.
DRONA 1.0 was launched on 16 June 2025 and was developed by DSSC Wellington and the Indian Navy’s Weapons Electronics Systems Engineering Establishment (WESEE).
The incorporation of the DRONA 2.0 GPT at DSSC Wellington is part of wider efforts within the service towards infusion of AI in training.
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