J. Manjula becomes DRDO's first woman Director General

[Hindustani78]

Updated: September 9, 2015 15:17 IST
J. Manjula becomes DRDO's first woman Director General - The Hindu

J. Manjula has been named DRDO's first woman Director General and has taken charge of the Electronics & Communication Systems cluster. Photo: By Special Arrangement

J. Manjula has been named DRDO's first woman Director General and has taken charge of the Electronics & Communication Systems cluster, an official announcement said on Wednesday.

Before her elevation, Ms. Manjula, who is a DRDO Outstanding Scientist, was Director of the Defence Avionics Research Establishment, Bengaluru, since July 2014.

She took charge from K.D. Nayak, Distinguished Scientist & Director General, who held the additional charge of the six ECS laboratories.

The DGs of seven clusters form the defence R&D establishment's second rung and report to its Secretary-Director General.

An alumna of Osmania University and a practising electronics and communications engineer, Ms. Manjula joined DRDO in 1987 after a brief stint in the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. At the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, she worked in the area of integrated electronic warfare and is credited with developing fast signal acquisition receivers, high power RF systems, responsive jammers and controller software for various systems used by the military and the paramilitary.

Her specialisation includes configuration of communication and radar ESM and ECM systems.

Ms. Manjula has been conferred the DRDO award for performance excellence, the Scientist of the Year award for 2011 and the India Today Woman Summit award for 2014.

 

[Nilgiri]

Congrats to this lady.

I would like to see more and more women enter this field after seeing these kinds of role models.

 

[Hindustani78]

By TNN & Agencies | 10 Sep, 2015, 12.04PM IST
J Manjula: 7 things to know about DRDO's first woman Director General - The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: J Manjula was appointed as the first woman director general of the Defence Research and Development Organization's Electronics and Communication Systems cluster on Wednesday.

The DGs of seven clusters form the DRDO's second rung who report to the organisation's Director-General. She has assumed charge from distinguished scientist and Director General Dr K D Nayak, who was holding Additional charge as Director General Electronic & Communication Systems. Manjula has the honour of being the first woman Director General of DRDO cluster.

We take a look at some facts about J Manjula, the first woman woman Director General of DRDO.

> Manjula has been leading Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), an establishment of DRDO, as a Director since July 2014.

> She has served in Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, for more than 26 years in the area of Integrated Electronic Warfare.

> She is an alumna of the Osmania University and an electronics and communications engineer.

> According to DRDO, Manjula has designed and realised fast signal acquisition receivers, high power RF systems, responsive jammers, controller software etc for various systems inducted in Army, Navy, Air Force and Paramilitary

> Born in 1962 in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district to high school principal J Sriramulu, Manjula had to fight many odds when she was a student. At a time when many families saw little need to educate the girl child, her parents were encouraging. But they were unable to provide her education in mathematics which she aspired to

> She struggled to make her way through, joined DRDO in 1987 and served in the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, for over 26 years in the area of integrated electronic warfare.

> She is the recipient of DRDO Award for Performance Excellence, Scientist of the Year 2011.

 

[Yeti]

Read her page on wiki she has superb credentials