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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

India's Leading Defence Research Organisation Gets Its First Woman Director-General

 

After Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar fired top missile scientist Avinash Chander as the chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in January 2015, the country's main defence research organisation will be headed by J Manjula as the the Director General, Electronics & Communication Systems 


J Manjula, an alumnus of Osmania University and a practising electronics and communications engineer, has been leading Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) since July 2014

J Manjula, who also served at the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, for more than 26 years in the area of Integrated Electronic Warfare, has designed fast signal acquisition receivers, high power RF systems, responsive jammers, controller software etc for various systems inducted in Army, Navy, Air Force and Paramilitary

J Manjula was awarded the DRDO award for 'Performance Excellence' and 'Scientist of the Year 2011'.

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