Test Facilities

Test Facilities

DRDO is developing critical Defence technologies and systems to cater the need of Indian Armed Forces and other agencies of GoI. The Labs of DRDO have state-of-art infrastructure including ‘Test Facilities’. It has been decided to provide access to these ‘Test Facilities’ on payment basis to Indian industries (Private/Govt/DPSUs/PSUs)engaged in Defence manufacturing (including under ‘Make in India’ initiative).

Certification Services

Certification Services

CEMILAC gives airworthiness certification to Indian Airborne Platforms. The airborne platform can be Aircraft, Helicopter, Parachute, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Aerostats. Each System, Line Replaceable Unit (LRU), component, material and the software which goes into airborne platform of Indian Military needs to be certified. Any system/component/material which is either externally or internally mounted to airborne platform needs to be certified by CEMILAC to meet armed forces requirements in terms of performance, reliability and life. As an end product towards certification a type certificate is issued which is commonly known as type approval, which is an authority to produce/manufacture the product under the supervision of government inspection agency and designated RCMA. The certification activities are in accordance to a government document namely DDPMAS-2002- Volume 1 & Volume 2 (It is available in guidance material section).

Export - support

Export - support

DRDO support industries in evolving the specifications of the export variant of the products (based on DRDO technology) to enable industries to respond to the RFPs. DRDO also carries out customization in the product to meet the requirement of customer countries based on the requirement of the Industries. The "DRDO SOP for Export of Military Equipment" facilitate Indian industries and DRDO labs to provide necessary technical support to industries for responding to RFI before necessary approval from MoD is obtained by the industry