DRDO Young Scientists Laboratories (DYSL)

DRDO Young Scientists Laboratories (DYSL)

Part of: GS Prelims and GS Mains -III- Security

In News

• Five defence laboratories led by under-35 directors and young military scientists were formally launched by Government
• Objective: To drive the country’s war technologies of the future under the Defence Research & Development Organisation.
• The labs operating in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad will each pursue a key technology necessary for developing the nation’s next generation of defence systems.
• There would be no fund constraints for the new labs and the new leaders enjoy the same administrative and financial powers as the directors of existing defence labs