How will these simulation exercises play out? Our team will be visiting Delhi soon to begin work,” said the RRU official. We have enhanced capabilities in the domains of artificial intelligence and cyber security. “We already have a prototype lab for wargaming at our campus which was visited by Army officials recently. The task has been assigned to faculty members from RRU’s School of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Located in Gandhinagar’s Lavad village, it is an “institute of national importance” – a status granted to it by an Act of Parliament.Ī team from the RRU will soon visit Delhi to get from the Army all the data it requires to begin work. The RRU, an institute under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), specialises in national security and policing. The RRU will join hands with Tech Mahindra to develop the centre in the coming three to four months, officials added.

The centre will come up in a military zone in New Delhi, confirmed RRU officials privy to the development. The wargame models will be designed to prepare for wars as well as counter-terror and counter-insurgency operations. The Wargame Research and Development Centre will be used by the Army to train its soldiers and test their strategies through “metaverse-enabled gameplay”. The project, which has been given a prototype name ‘WARDEC’, will be a first-of-its-kind simulation-based training centre in India that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to design virtual reality wargames. The Army Training Command on May 13 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to develop a ‘Wargame Research and Development Centre’ in New Delhi.

War gaming centre