Defence Research & Development Service
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| Abbreviation | D.R.D.S. | ||||||||||
| Formed | 1979 | ||||||||||
| Country |
 India
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| Training Grounds |
DIAT Pune ITM Mussoorie |
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| Controlling Authority |
Ministry of Defence Department of Defence R & D |
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| Legal personality |
Governmental Civil Service |
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| General nature | Research & Development Technology Management |
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| Cadre Size | 7256 members | ||||||||||
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| Secretary, DDR&D and Chairman, DRDO Current: S. Christopher |
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| Head of the Civil Services | |||||||||||
| Cabinet Secretary Current: Pradeep Kumar Sinha |
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Defence Research & Development Service (DRDS) (Hindi: रक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास सेवा) is a civil service of the Government of India. DRDS scientists are Gazetted (Group A) defence-civilian officers under the Ministry of Defence. They are responsible for developing new technologies and military hardware for the Indian defence and security forces.
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) came into existence in 1958 by the merger of the Technical Development Establishment and the Directorate of Technical Development and Production with the Defence Science Organisation. DRDS was formed in 1979, and a separate Department of Defence Research and Development was created in 1980, which later on administered DRDO and its 52 laboratories/establishments. A senior DRDS scientist was made the Director General of DRDO, Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri (Defence Minister of India) and ex officio Secretary of the Department of Defence Research and Development.
However in 2015, the post was bifurcated and the senior DRDS scientist held the post of Director General of DRDO and the Secretary of the Department of Defence Research and Development. And a younger and experienced DRDS scientist was made the Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri (SA to RM). Further in 2015, the post of Director General, DRDO was renamed as Chairman, DRDO.
DRDS scientists are recruited into DRDO by one of the following means:
Being engaged in defence technology research and development, the DRDS scientists have to be abreast with the latest technologies around the world and are trained at the premier Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune. Since the DRDS scientists also have the responsibility of managing the workforce, establishments and projects of DRDO, they are trained in management at the Institute of Technology Management, Mussoorie. They are also educated and trained at the Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management, and Indian Institute of Science, other civil and defence academies of India as well as at other foreign universities.
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