DRDO Establishes Eight Advanced Technology Centres To Pursue Research On Futuristic Military Applications

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has set up eight advanced technology centres to carry out research on futuristic military applications, reports Economic Times.

The development was shared by Union Minister of Defence (MoS) Shripad Naik in Rajya Sabha yesterday (19 September). The Government will be providing support to academia via these centres to pursue research on new technologies in niche areas for military use.

In the present day, DRDO has over 50 laboratories spread across the nation, pursuing defence technologies in areas like aeronautics, armaments, combat vehicles, engineering systems, missiles, advanced computing and naval systems.

Meanwhile, it should be noted that in the bygone month of August, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had also set in motion a process to usher in mega reforms to improve the efficiency of the institution's laboratories across the nation with an aim to boost domestic production. For the purpose, a committee headed by incumbent Director of IIT Delhi, Professor V Ramgopal Rao has also been instituted.

Presently DRDO is headed by Dr G Satheesh Reddy who is a noted aerospace scientist and is serving as the premier institution's chairman.