The 2nd term winners of the Innovative Software Completion (Y³) Program initiated by the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) received their awards at a ceremony attended by President of Defense Industries Prof. İsmail DEMİR and many sector representatives. 

Delivering a speech at the ceremony, Prof. İsmail DEMİR stated that the efforts to produce critical components for the defense systems needed by the Turkish Armed Forces, entirely with domestic and national means, were being carried out and that they started to get the first outcomes of such efforts with the R&D Panels held for that purpose. Prof. DEMİR: “We have successfully completed 47 R&D Projects thus far, and 62 projects are still in progress. The total budget of our R&D Projects is TRY 3.5 billion.”