Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC), DRDO

Field	Location of Labs/ Establishments
COMPUTER SCIENCES	•Advanced Numerical Research & Analysis Group (ANURAG) :Hyderabad •Center for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR) :Bangalore •Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) :Delhi •DRONA CELL :Delhi •Scientific Analysis Group (SAG) :Delhi
AERONAUTICS	•Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) : Bangalore •Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) : Agra •Centre for Air Borne Systems (CABS) : Bangalore •Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) : Bangalore •Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) : Bangalore •Center for Military Airworthiness & Certification (CEMILAC) : Bangalore
ARMAMENTS	•Armament Research & Development Establishment (ARDE): Pune •Centre for Fire, Explosive & Environment Safety (CFEES): Delhi •High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL): Pune •Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE): Balasore/Chandipur •Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory( TBRL): Chandigarh
LIFE SCIENCES	•Defence Agricultural Research Laboratory (DARL): Pithoragarh •Defence Bio-Engineering and Electro Medical Laboratory (DEBEL) :Bangalore •Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL): Mysore •Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences (DIPAS) :Delhi •Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR) :Delhi •Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) :Tezpur •Field Research Laboratory (FRL) :C/O 56 APO •Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) :Delhi •Defence Research & Development Establishment (DRDE):Gwalior
COMBAT VEHICLES AND ENGINEERING	•Combat Vehicles Research & Development Estt. (CVRDE): Chennai •Vehicle Research & Development Establishment (VRDE) : Ahemednagar •Research & Development Establishment (Engineers)(R&DE):Pune •Snow & Avalanche Study Estt (SASE) : Chandigarh
ELECTRONICS	•Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL): Dehradun •Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL): Hyderabad •Defence Terrain Research Laboratory (DTRL): Delhi •Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE):Dehradun •Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC): Delhi •Electronics & Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) : Bangalore •Microwave Tube R &D Center (MTRDC) :Bangalore •Solid State Physics Laboratory (SSPL) :Delhi
MATERIALS	•Defence Laboratory (DLJ) : Jodhpur •Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) : Hyderabad •Defence Materials and Stores Research & Development Establishment (DMSRDE) :Kanpur
MISSILES	•Advanced System Laboratory :Hyderabad •Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) :Hyderabad •Integrated Test Range (ITR) :Balasore •Research Center Imarat (RCI) :Hyderabad
NAVAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT	•Naval Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL) : Mumbai •Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) :Kochi •Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL) :Visakhapatnam
TECHNOLOGIES	•Institute for Systems Studies and Analyses (ISSA): Delhi

COMPUTER SCIENCE
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Cryptology and related studies on Defence interest	Analysis and Synthesis	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Algebraic Number Theory Mathematics Computational Mathematics Algebraic Geometry Computational Complexity Theory Multivariate Analysis & Statistical Learning Speech Recognition Statistics Cryptology

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AERONAUTICS
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Evaluation & airworthiness certification, type approval, accident investigation, life extension of airborne systems of Military Aircraft	Aircraft/Engine system analysis And certification	M.Tech/ MS	Fatigue/Fracture mechanics, Damage tolerance, Life evaluation. CFD,FEM, Software verification& validation. Composite smart materials/MEMS. Multi sensor data management/Fusion. Digital signal processing, Anti jamming techniques. Electro optics. EW Systems. Radar Development Evaluation
		Certification of high temperature alloy, casting & forging	M.Tech/ MS
		Gas turbine Engines	M.Tech/ MS	Performance Testing & Certification

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ARMAMENT
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Proof-testing of ammunitions, trials of guns, rockets, missiles & warheads of various types and related instrumentations	Instrumentation	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Dimensions through non-contact methods Interior Ballistics (Gunbore Dynamics)
	Military explosives and propellants for guns, mortars, rockets & missiles; pyrotechnics	Polymer Chemistry	Ph.D	Self pyrolyzable organometallic and ,free radical generating polymers
	Catalysis		M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Hydrogenation with regeneration
		Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR)	Ph.D	Explosives

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LIFE SCIENCE
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Life support systems for Armed Forces, bio-medical instrumentation/devices	Nano-technology	M.Tech/ MS	Bio / Chemical sensors
		Bio-MEMS	M.Tech/ MS	Design & packaging
		Biomedical Engineering	M.Tech/ MS	Micro electronics
		Biomedical engineering	M.Tech/ MS	Embedded software
		Mechanical Engineering	M.Tech/ MS	Under water equipments
	Physiological/human adaptation to environmental stress, human engineering	Hypoxia and Cellular Adaptation	Ph.D	Oxygen sensing and signalling
		Neuro physiology	Ph.D	Physiology of Cognition in Human model
		Human Factor Research	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Kinetic & Kinematic analysis of human locomotion
		Micronutrition research	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Anti oxidant and free radical defence
	Personnel selection, training of assessors	Personality Assessment Psychological warfare		Cognitive Assessment and Neuro Psychology , Terrorism , Conflict Management ,Group Dynamics
	High altitude agriculture & biotechnology, hydrophonics and greenhouses	Biochemistry/ Phyto-chemistry	Ph.D	Herbal products and phyto-chemicals
		Molecular Biology Genetic Engineering	Ph.D	Isolation of Novel gene(s),designing of vectors and development of marker free transgenics in vegetables
	Convenience foods for Armed Forces, Food Packaging	Cereal technology	M.Tech/ MS	Extrusion Cooking and Baking
		Biotechnology	M.Tech/ MS	Probiotic Foods
		Polymer Technology	M.Tech/ MS	Biodegradable Polymers/ Packaging materials
		Food Preservation	M.Tech/ MS	High Pressure, Infra red, Pulse Electric Field Microwave systems
	Chemical & medical protection against toxic chemicals and pathogens	Lab-on-chip	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Synthesis and analysis
		Electronics & Instrumentation	M.Tech/ MS	Ion mobility spectrometry based tramsducer simulation & development
		Microbiology	Ph.D	Molecular Biology
		Mass spectrometric analysis of biological macromolecules.	Ph.D	Biomarker analysis by MALDI-TOF
		Drug Discovery		Bio-informatics Pharmacogenomics Molecular Biology

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COMBAT VEHICLE & ENGINEERING
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Main Battle Tank and related sub-systems; development of specialist vehicles on heavy tanks, core technologies for Armoured Fighting vehicles	Development of Diesel Engine	M.Tech/ MS	Thermal and CFD analysis of IC Engine systems
		Development of Diesel Engine	M.Tech/ MS	Combustion study and optimization in an IC engine
		Modeling and Simulation	M.Tech/ MS	Electric drive for AFVs
		Robotics	M.Tech/ MS	Image processing, sensors, artificial intelligence, mechatronics
	Development of, light tracked vehicles, ‘B’ vehicles and Specialist vehicles for various defence applications, testing of vehicles/ assembly on test-track facility	Rotary(Wankel)		UAV applications
		Engine Management		Electronic
		Fuel Injection Systems		Electronic
		Design and Development		Unmanned ground vehicles

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ELECTRONICS
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Propagation Studies, image processing, satellite communication, MMW technologies and related areas, SW Radio	Image Processing	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Pattern & Target recognition
		MW Sensor development	M.Tech/ MS	Millimeter Wave Components 94 & 140 GHz
	Secondary surveillance radars, MW antennas, electronic warfare systems	Radiation Pattern computation of Antennas mounted on various platforms like Aircrafts , Helicopters, Ships etc.	Ph.D	Proficiency in Geometrical theory of Diffraction,Method of Moments, FDTD for modeling and simulation of antenna radiation patterns and Experimental validation of these techniques
		Advanced ES Processor	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Analysis & Classification of Complex emitters under dense signal conditions using 1) Neural networks 2) Fuzzy logic 3) DSP with wavelets 4) VLSI design for SOC 5) Software Radio 6) Decision Support Systems
		Advanced ES Receiver Systems	M.Tech/ MS	Ultrawideband Radar / LPI Radar Detection & analysis Frequency Measurement & Direction Finding Receivers
	Night-vision devices, laser & electro-optical devices, sighting systems and photonics	Adaptive Optics	Ph.D	Fast Wave front sensing, Deformable mirror tech, AO close loop and system analysis
		Integrated Optics	Ph.D	Frequency conversion ,and new laser sources
		Thermal Imaging	Ph.D	Computer/electronics
		Thermal Imaging	Ph.D	Optical Designer
		Thermal Imaging	Ph.D	Control Engineering
		Thermal Imaging	Ph.D	Physics
		Optical Image Processing	Ph.D	Distortion invariant filters for digital/optical correlator for pattern recognition
	Radars for various roles	Synthetic and inverse syntheticaperture radar system Design / Processing	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Signal & Image Processing Active Arrays, T/R Modules, Electronics Scanning, Digital Beam Forming MEMS, RF & MMIC Design
	Traveling wave tubes and MPM	Microwave Engineering Physics	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D
	Semiconductor materials and devices, millimeter wave sources & detectors, Gallium arsenide material & devices	Material Characterization	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	XPS , AES , SIMS
		Crystal Growth	Ph.D	CdZnTe, GaAs, GaN and Single crystal pyroelectric materials
		Design , Modeling , fabrication & testing	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	GaAs based MMIC
		Laser Packaging and thermal management	Ph.D	High Power Lasers
		Device material development	Ph.D	IR systems
		MEMS		Devices and their integration

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MATERIALS
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Desert environmental science & technology including water purification, desalination and water quality management; camouflage, concealment and deception studies; nuclear radiation management and their applications	Solar Energy farming and Transport	Ph.D	Microwave
		Radiation Technology	Ph.D	Radiation Chemistry
	Development of processes/ technologies and products connected with powder metallurgy, gas turbine materials, armour materials, light weight alloys, friction and magnetic materials and special sheets for Naval applications	Non-destructive Testing of Materials	Ph.D	Ultrasonic Radiography, Acoustic Emission and Eddy Current technologies
		Mechanical Behavior of Materials		Properties of Thin films, Coatings and MEMS devices
		Deformation Processing		Forging and Rolling, inclusive of Isothermal Processing
		Powder Metallurgy		Powder Metallurgy of Refractory Metals

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MISSILES
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Development of guided missiles and associated ground equipment systems, setting up special assembly and testing infrastructure required for missile systems	Scramjet engines	Ph.D	Combustion in high speed flows
		Aerodynamics	Ph.D	Hypersonic wind tunnel & shock tubes
		Design and optimization	Ph.D	Configuration and Shape
		Aero dynamics and combustion	MS/ Ph.D	Laser Diagnostics
		Design , modeling & Simulation	MS/ Ph.D	Flight Dynamics-Control systems
		Data fusion & Optimization	MS/ Ph.D	Multi-sensors for Aerospace
		Integrated Guidance & Control	MS/ Ph.D	High accuracy and robust systems
		Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)	Ph.D	Aerospace vehicles
		CFD	Ph.D	Ignition modeling of Hydrocarbon fuel in high-speed flow
	Assembly and testing infrastructure for guided missiles, R&D on missile seeker heads and guidance technology	Laser guidance and photonics
		Inertial guidance, RF Systems Communication Systems, Signal Processing, Digital Systems , Control & Systems Engg
		Systems Engg., Test & Evaluation, Modeling & Simulation
	Advanced System Development, Composite material and products having spin-off to Civil sector implements and equipment	Coating of fibers with Engg Thermoplastics	M.Tech/ MS	Thermoplastic form and processing
		Development of performs based on braiding / knitting technology	M.Tech/ MS	Machinery development
		Conversion of Rayon to Carbon at yarn level and bias-cut weaving	M.Tech/ MS	Chemical processing Special Engg Textile machinery
		Visco Elastic Analysis Non-linear Structural Dynamics	Ph.D	Structural Dynamics Continuum Mechanism FEM
		Design and Analysis of Large Thrust Solid Motor Test facilities	M.Tech/ MS	Structural Engg / Mechanical Engg
		Aerospace Mechanism	M.Tech/ MS	Mechanical Engg / Aeronautical
	Providing flight test facilities and range instrumentations for flight-testing rockets, missiles & similar weapon system of short & medium ranges	Air borne Radars	M.Tech/ MS	Phased Array systems
		Fuzzy Systems	M.Tech/ MS	Neuro computing
		Image Processing	M.Tech/ MS	Thermal Imaging
		Real time software development	M.Tech/ MS	3D processing

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NAVAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	Development of Sonar’s and Sonobuoys and related signal processing systems, oceanographic studies and simulation techniques	MEMS	Ph.D	Development of micro sensors and actuators for underwater sensing
		Ocean modeling	Ph.D	Underwater / geoacoustics/ and physical oceanographic modeling
		CFD for Naval hydrodynamics	Ph.D	Underwater bodies ; Rigid and compliant structures
	Under-water weapon systems, ship research, marine & mechanical engineering, range instrumentations for under-water testing, hydrodynamics, electrical engineering, under-water ranging, noise & vibration measurement, simulators, shock & vibration	MEMS & Nanotechnology	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Development of Sensor Technology
		Modeling & Simulation	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Underwater environment & Noise suppression Algorithms
		Computational Studies	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	CFD Computational Electro- magnetics Acoustics & Magnetics
		Control, Navigation & Guidance and Tactics Simulation		Underwater weapon systems

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TECHNOLOGIES
	Key Areas of Work	Major Area of Work	Preferred Qualification	Specialization
	System Studies, Modeling and Analysis and Software Development related with: Electronic Combat, Air to Air Combat, Land and Naval Combat	Modeling and Simulation Integrated software development of defence system	M.Tech/ MS/ Ph.D	Data Fusion Combat Models, A/c Performance Models Radar, WE and SW system modeling (Radar, ESM and EA) and Analysis Operation Research De-interleaving Algorithm DF Systems and Algorithms Network Centric Operations GIS Artificial Intelligence Web Technologies Information Theory Game Theory Control and Guidance Rockets and Missiles Digital Signal Processing Weapon Modeling CID Networking System Science and System Embedded System Real Time Software Decision Support Decision Theory Numerical Analysis

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