The CAG report showed irregularities in the selection of aircraft for the programme By Pradip R Sagar August 29, 2018 THE WEEK As the indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS)—aircraft fitted with a radar system—flew over the Rajpath during the 2017 Republic Day parade, India joined an elite group of five countries that […]
CAG blows holes in DRDO’s early warning planes
By Shaurya Karanbir Gurung, ET Bureau, Aug 08, 2018 After a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into corruption allegations, the Comptroller and Auditor General has also cast a shadow on an indigenous program for Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system ordered by the Air Force. In a detailed report, the CAG has stated that […]
Shut Down Laboratories And Overhaul The DRDO, Expert Committee Tells Defence Ministry
All non-core research activity of the DRDO must stop. Sudhi Ranjan Sen Deputy Editor (News) The Huffington Post 14/03/2017 3:40 PM IST India’s premier defence research organisation, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), needs a major overhaul, some its research laboratories closed and the organisation needs to concentrate only on development of defence platforms, a […]
CBI finds Embraer deal fixer, may unmask bribe recipients
TNN | Updated: Sep 29, 2016, NEW DELHI: CBI claimed on Wednesday that it has managed to track down a middleman, a foreign national, who was allegedly paid $5.5 million as commission by Brazilian company Embraer to bag a Rs 1,350 crore ($208 million) jet deal with India in 2008. Sources said investigation has established […]
S Christopher is new Director General of DRDO; GS Reddy appointed scientific advisor to Defence Minister
By ET Bureau | 28 May, 2015, 09.30PM IST After a gap of several months, DRDO has finally got a new leadership with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar pushing through a new concept to divide the top post into two parts. The government on Thursday appointed S Christopher who heads the centre for airborne systems as […]
Perform or perish
by Harsh Pant Wednesday, 4 February 2015 dna The Modi government has done the right thing by jolting an ossified bureaucracy India’s ossified bureaucracy is being shuffled like never before. The most recent development in this realm has been the rather dramatic sacking of Sujatha Singh from the post of the Foreign Secretary and the […]
PM scraps DRDO’s ‘retirement benefits’ committee
ABHINANDAN MISHRA New Delhi | 20th Sep 2014 – The Sunday Gaurdian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to scrap the Departmental Peer Review Committee (DPRCs) of the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) in an attempt to revamp the outfit. The main job of this committee of DRDO scientists is to grant extensions to fellow […]
