The Indian Army on Thursday signed a $20 million deal with a company formed by three alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Bombay) and incubated by the top engineering institute to make drones.

Named ideaForge Technology, the company was founded at the IIT-Bombay incubator SINE in 2007 by Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh and Ashish Bhat.

In a Facebook post, IIT-Bombay said, “Congratulations to SINE and our hearty congratulations to Ankit, Rahul and Ashish. It is worth mentioning that they were bestowed with the Young Alumni Achiever award last year.”

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According to a statement by the company on its website, it will provide the Indian Army an “undisclosed quantities of a high-altitude variant of ideaForge’s Switch UAV.”

The statement said, “ideaForge has been awarded this contract after it emerged as the only vendor that qualified the operational requirements in an evaluation done in real-world conditions, for a fast-track procurement.”

ideaForge CEO, Ankit Mehta said, “SWITCH UAV is the culmination of insights and knowledge we have gained over years of experience in helping the Indian Forces operationalize UAVs in their ranks. The trials saw about a dozen national and global players compete to meet the operational requirements.”

He added, “SWITCH UAV is the only product that cleared the Indian Army’s stringent product trials and surpassed expectations. It is a testimony of the fact that our systems are built like a bird and tested like a tank. Our systems are fully ready to serve nations that seek to protect their territorial sovereignty.”