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<b>DRDO Awards 2006</b>
Jul 9th, 2007 by FIDSNS

Prime Minister gave away DRDO Awards for the year 2006 to scientists, establishments and private sector firmsin New Delhi, on July 07, 2007.
Silicon Trophy : In recognition of its vibrant, uncompromising and relentless efforts in updating the range techniques and range technologies in the country and extraordinary support provided to all armament research and development activities in the country, Silicon Trophy 2006 for the Best Systems Laboratory was awarded to Proof & Experimental Establishment, Chandipur.
Titanium Trophy : The Titanium Trophy for the Best Science Laboratory to Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior. The DRDE has developed a number of products and technologies, which have large scale military and civil end use, particularly in the field of chemical and biological defence.
DRDO Award for path breaking Research / Outstanding Technology Development : This award was conferred on Dr. VK Saraswat and his team of following scientists :-

RESEARCH CENTRE IMARAT HYDERBAD
Dr.SK Chaudhuri
Shri SP Dash
Shri DS Reddy
Shri RS Hastak
Shri M Palani
Shri G Satheesh Reddy
Shri K Jagdisan
Shri Adalat Ali
Shri S Gopinath
Shri UK SinghMs
Arundhati Bhattacharyya
Shri KC Maharana
Shri DL Seshagiri Rao
Shri CS Adishesha
Shri Y Srinivas Rao
Shri S Ravi Krishana
Shri D Niroop Singh
Shri Prabhakar M More
Shri Sameer Patel
Shri R Venkataram Reddy
Shri Sandeep Sharma
Shri Prashant MishraWg
Cdr U Rajababu

DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY, HYDERABAD
Shri N Prabhakar
Shri PSR Anjaneyulu
Shri N Isaac
Shri K Srinivas
Shri KS VaraprasadMs
S Ramya
Shri NV Kadam

ADVANCED SYSTEMS LABORATORY,HYDERABAD
Shri J Ram Mohan
Shri BVSR Murthy

ELECTRONICS AND RADAR DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT, BANGALORE
Shri S Ravind
Shri KT Udayanarayana
Shri Gampala Viswam
Shri SS Nagaraj
Shri Sheikh Althaf

INTERIM TEST RANGE, BALASORE
Shri R Appavu Raj
Shri MV Bhaskarachari
Dr.BK Das

ARMAMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT, PUNE
Shri Surendra Kumar

HIGH ENERGY MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY, PUNE
Shri S Subhananda Rao
Shri Manoj Gupta

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT (ENGINEERS), PUNE
Shri SC Sati

MSQAA
Cdr S Chandran

<b>Dr. VK Saraswat and his team achieved a unique milestone in the development of Area Defence System against ballistic missile attack on vulnerable areas by successfully intercepting an incoming missile with ballistic trajectory using interceptor PAD missile at exo-layer.</b>

AGNI AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN SELF – RELIANCE
Shri NB Vijayakumar and his team (Shri SC Sati, Shri VB Ware, Shri S Bhaumik and Shri VH Made) from Research and Development Establishment (Engrs), Pune for design and development of main mobile hydro-pneumatic launcher prototype and power supply system, UAV handling devices and transportation containers, antenna system vehicle and EMI/EMC shelter for ground control station, avionics preparation vehicle, photo-processing vehicle, etc.

Shri SM Nirgude & his team (Ms CP Mahajan, Shri AP Narkhede, Shri SR Chavan, Shri BM Satisha and Ms Sobha Singh) from Armament Research and Development Establishment, Pune for designing and developing Influence Mine (Adrushy Mk II), the first “Smart Mine” for the Indian Army.

Shri VL Narasimhan and his team (Shri SC Bhattacharya, Shri AK Mandal, Shri LD Chavan, Shri AK Nandi, Ms S Basu, Shri VV Jadhav and Shri VB Sutar) from High Energy Materials Research Laboratory for successfully developing the process for preparing 1,3,5-Triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene, a thermally stable, insensitive high explosive mainly used for strategic applications in the defence sector.

Shri G Satheesh Reddy & his team (Shri B Chattopadhyaya, Shri KC Nancharaiah, Shri Gopak Naik, Shri G Murali Krishna, Shri Manjeeth Kumar, Shri KC Das, Shri Anil Badegar, Ms Runa Banerjee, Shri Brijnesh Sitara and Ms M Vijayasree) from Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad for successfully developing indigenous RLG – based INS – GPS system for fighter aircraft and medium / long range missile applications.

Dr. Sudershan Kumar & his team (Shri GL Baheti, Dr. Deepak Gopalani, Shri Alok Mukherjee, Dr. MVS Suryanarayana, Shri Taragu Prabhakar, Shri Sanjeev Pillai and Shri SK Shendge) from Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur and a group of DRDO Laboratories for development and production of NBC Recce vehicle.

DRDO AWARDS FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE
Shri Ashok Sen and his team (Dr RS Pundir, Shri Sanjay Burman, Shri SO Gupta, Shri S Mahto, Shri LC Mangal and Shri Prakash Chand) from Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory, Dehradun and Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore for designing and developing a state-of-the-art software driven combat net radio and armoured fighter vehicle application.

Dr. SK Vasudeva & his team (Shri MR Gangur, Shri DS Reddy, Shri M Gurubasavraj, Shri S Gopinath, Shri PK Khosla, Shri Sreenivasan, Shri Amod Mathur, Smt U Jeya Shanti and Shri Gopi Chand) from System Planning & Implementation Centre, New Delhi and other laboratories for outstanding and innovative contributions in the design and development of indigenous armament system for a strategic programme of national importance.

DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AWARD
M/s Active Carbon (I) Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad for significant contribution in successful absorption of the technology for production of NBC canisters and impregnated carbon for use in NBC canisters and filters for tanks, shelters, ships etc.

DRDO SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD
Shri RN Bhattacharjee of Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad for significant contribution in the areas of control, guidance and system engineering studies for Akash, Nag and Trishul guided missile systems leading to successful completion of their development flight.

Shri MR Kesheorey of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore for successfully developing and fielding several versions of the speech secrecy equipment SECTEL.

Dr. R Sreehari Rao of Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad for development of electronic warfare subsystems and systems.

Dr KD Nayak of Advanced Numerical Research & Analysis Group, Hyderabad for indigenous development of critical application – specific integrated circuits for strategic application of the major programmes of DRDO like IGMDP and LCA.

Prof Manas K Mandal of Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi for outstanding contribution in the field of military psychology.

Dr. Sri Prakash of Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior for development of semiochemicals based technology involving pheromone in combination with insect growth regulator for monitoring and control of dengue and chikungunya transmitting mosquito Aedes Aegypti.

Dr. Zakwan Ahmed of Field Research Laboratory, Leh for development and identification of varieties/hybrids of vegetable crops suitable for high altitude areas of Himalayan region.

Shri Tusharkanti Raychaudhuri of Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh for the development of critical specialized technologies required for production of gas filled three electrode trigger spark gap switch.

Dr M Vijayakumar of Defence Metallurgical Laboratory, Hyderabad for development of technology for fabrication of continuous silica fiber reinforced silica composites for Agni missile.

Shri CD Malleswar of Naval Science & Technological Laboratory, Visakhapatnam, for design and development of high quality integrated anti-submarine warfare complex – IAC MOD ‘0’ – for naval frigates.

DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY SPIN-OFF AWARD
Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Delhi for design and development of ALOCAL an Aloe Vera cream as an anti frostbite preparation for use in cold areas at high altitudes.

Research & development Establishment (Engineers), Pune for design and development of life saving biomedical equipment such as hyperbaric chamber, nitric oxide therapy system, high – altitude breathing apparatus, etc.

High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Pune for designing and assembling economic explosive detection and identification kit.

Centre for fire, explosive and Environment Safety, Delhi for developing technologies in the field of fire and environment safety.

Vehicle Research & Development Establish, Ahmednagar for successfully developing bullet-proof vehicles and riot-control vehicles and their productionisation through industry partners.


<b>DRDO making 1000km subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay</b>

SUJAN DUTTA
New Delhi, July 19: Indian defence scientists have taken up a new cruise missile development programme. The missile named Nirbhay (The Fearless) is in the same class as the US’s Tomahawk and will have a range that is 300km longer than Pakistan’s Babur.

Nirbhay is India’s seventh missile development project after the Agni series, the Prithvi series, Brahmos (in a joint venture with Russia), Akash, Trishul and Nag. The last three were part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme founded by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Nirbhay is being developed alongside Astra, an air-to-air missile designed to hit targets beyond visual range.

A cruise missile can be guided to a target. A ballistic missile is fired at a pre-determined target. Nirbhay will carry onboard a terrain-identification system that will map its course and relay the information to its guidance and propulsion systems.

“Every modern military needs to have missile options. The requirement for Nirbhay was projected by all three armed forces to fill a gap in our missile programme,” Avinash Chander, the director of the Advanced Systems Laboratory, Hyderabad, who is in charge of the project, told The Telegraph in Delhi today.

Nirbhay will be a terrain-hugging missile capable of avoiding detection by ground-based radar. It would have a range of 1,000km.

“We have Brahmos, which is a supersonic cruise missile and the need was felt for a subsonic cruise missile that will be capable of being launched from multiple platforms in land, air and sea,” Chander said.

In the schedule drawn up for Nirbhay, a technology demonstrator is slotted for early 2009. Chander said the design for the system is complete and “hardware preparations are on”. He said Nirbhay would weigh around 1,000kg and travel at 0.7 mach (nearly 840kmph) and would be capable of delivering 24 different types of warheads.

The Pakistan's chinese made subsonic cruise missile Babur (also called Hatf VII) has ranges of 500 to 700km. The US’s Tomahawk has many versions, the latest of which has ranges in excess of 1,500km.

<b>DRDO Develops Stealthy Under Water Mines for Indian Navy</b>

The Naval Scientific Technological Laboratory (NSTL) here, a wing of Defence Research Development Organisation, has developed a deadly device called underwater mine which will do the job. Evolved by indigenous technology at the NSTL, the underwater mine will join the Indian arsenal shortly to bolster Indian Navy's weapon shop.

Testing and rating of the device has been completed successfully and the weapon and the project will be handed over to the Indian Navy. The device which will be planted underwater, can destroy enemy objects including sub-marines, war ships and even small boats which may come within a particular radius of the location of the device.

The NSTL has completed the requisite administrative formalities before the device is released officially. NSTL which has planned to hand over underwater mine in the first week of July put it off due to some technical reasons.

A senior official told this website's newspaper that their project has been completed successfully but declined to divulge the cost of the project. Normally, the cost of research and development of this type of weapons is no constraint, but NSTL executed the project within the stipulated budget, the official revealed.

This is the first of its kind device. It will add a feather to Indian Navy�s cap, particularly in view of future challenges it might encounter, a senior scientist claimed with pride.

With regard to the success of the underwater mine venture, the naval sources expressed their delight and said it would be a real push to the Indian Navy: We are also eagerly waiting for the day to induct the device into the Navy's arsenal.

<b>US expresses interest in India’s DRDO made Mine-Protected Vehicle</b>

New Delhi, Aug 02: The US defence department has evinced keen interest in an indigenous mine-protected vehicle that the Army is set to induct for anti-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

The ‘Aditya’ vehicle which was developed by DRDO and will be inducted by the Army by November to provide increased protection to troops engaged in counter-terrorism operations.

The Army has projected a requirement for 1,400 such vehicles and given the green signal to induct 300.

Official sources said the US authorities had expressed interest in the vehicle mainly due to its ability to withstand an explosion of up to 10 tonnes of TNT, far beyond the capability of any similar vehicle.

But the Americans, who are eyeing these specialised vehicles apparently to cope with increased car bomb attacks in Iraq, will have to wait.

B P Bapu, joint general manager of the ordnance factory in Medak that produces the Aditya, said the Army had ordered a large number of vehicles and the unit could not aspire for any export orders now.

Bapu said the mine-protected vehicle was displayed during Army Chief Gen J J Singh`s recent visit to the central Indian garrison town of Mhow.