An independent think tank advancing India’s sovereign future — through rigorous policy research, field-tested conservation technology, and citizen preparedness. By Indians. For India.
Thinking India’s future. Defending it today.— CDF Founding Mandate
From policy corridors to forest frontlines — CDF operates where ideas become action.
India needs its own intellectual infrastructure — indigenous thinking on defense, geopolitics, and national resilience. CDF produces rigorous policy research untethered from foreign agendas.
CDF’s flagship field programme deploys proprietary Indian technology across forest frontlines — real-time monitoring, anti-poaching systems, and human-animal conflict mitigation.
Survival Con is CDF’s premier experiential platform — equipping citizens and professionals with field survival skills, crisis response capability, and tactical preparedness.
India’s strategic challenges have never been borrowed problems. They are ours — shaped by our geography, our history, our neighbourhood, and the weight of our civilisational inheritance. The institutions that address them must be ours too.
The Convergent Defense Foundation works at the intersection of rigorous thought and field action. We conduct independent research on defence, security, and national resilience — and we carry that thinking into practice.
Our work is the evidence we produce, the capability we build, and the people we prepare.
India does not need borrowed ideas dressed in Indian colours. It needs institutions that think in Indian, dream in Indian, and defend in Indian. That is what we are building.
— Convergent Defense Foundation MandateRigorous, field-informed analysis — not opinion or ideology dressed as policy.
Indian funding. Indian leadership. Indian priorities.
CDF’s research is validated by active field programmes and real deployments.
Where strategic thinking meets real-world deployment.
Proprietary monitoring systems, anti-poaching technology, and human-animal conflict mitigation across India’s forest frontlines.
India’s premier tactical preparedness and survival skills convention.
Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, field professional, or aligned institution — we want to hear from you.
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