The Institute of Armament Technology (IAT) became out of the Institute of Armament Studies, which was built up at the College of Military Engineering at Dapodi, Pune in 1952. Specialized courses at the foundation were at first offered to armed force officials. In any case, later, courses were added to fulfill the necessities of the three outfitted administrations, the DRDO, Defense Ordnance Factories, Defense Quality Assurance, Defense Aeronautical Quality Assurance, and other open division elements. In 1967, IAT was moved to another area at Girinagar, Pune. 

The mission of the IAT is to work as an establishment of advanced education in science and innovation handle that have an immediate relationship to barrier prerequisites, particularly weapon frameworks. In the field of guided rockets, the organization offers courses in "rocket direction and control, rocket streamlined features, structures, setups, and drive, direction sign handling, computational liquid elements, flight elements, rocket plan, burning, rockets framework investigation, and reenactment."