Electronics and Radar Development Establishment

Located in C.V. Raman Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, its primary function is research and development of radars and related technologies.

[1] It was founded by S. P. Chakravarti, the father of electronics and telecommunication engineering in India, who also founded the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory and Defence Research and Development Laboratory.

To distinguish between "Electrical" and "Electronic", the latter is abbreviated with the first letter of its Latin root (lektra).

Its primary production partners include Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and various private firms like CoreEL Technologies, Bangalore, Mistral Solutions in Bengaluru, Astra microwave in Hyderabad and Data Patterns in Chennai.

The publicly known projects include: Apart from the above, the DRDO has also several other radar systems currently under development or in trials.