DRDO is the R&D wing of Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, with a vision to empower India with cutting-edge defence technologies and built an Atmanirbhar Bharat in critical ...defence technologies and systems. DRDO's pursuit of self-reliance and successful indigenous development and production of strategic systems and platforms ranging from Aeronautical System, Missiles, Radars, Armaments, Sonars, Electronic Warfare, Computational System, Life Science & Engineering System, Surveillance and Recce Systems, Naval and Airborne Weapon Systems using indigenous manufacturing and testing facilities and working together with OFBs, DPSUs, academia and private industries. The organisation has also demonstrated its ability and capability in the fourth frontier of warfare, the space, by successfully conducting tests of Anti-Satellite Missile & scramjet demonstration by testing Hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle .
A phenomenal growth of 70 per cent in product portfolio value of DRDO developed products cleared by Defence Acquisition Council during last four years, indicates a very high level of sense of satisfaction and accomplishment on the designated path of Research and Development for the Armed Forces. Organisation has identiļed 108 systems and sub-systems for production in India, thus strengthening the indigenous defence ecosystem.
Vision
Empowering the nation with state-of-the-art indigenous defence technologies and systems.
Mission
Design, develop and lead to production state-of-the-art sensors, weapon systems, platforms and allied equipment for our Defence Services.
AProvide technological solutions to the ... Services to optimise combat
effectiveness and to promote well-being of the troops. Develop infrastructure and committed quality manpower and build strong indigenous technology base.