National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru

Established in 1959, CSIR-NAL is a high-technology R&D institution focusing on advanced disciplines in aerospace and has a mandate to develop aerospace technologies with strong science content, design and build small and medium size aircraft and support all national programmes. During the year 2014, NAL has made significant contributions especially to strategic sector. For the first time in the laboratory, drop test of stores was carried out from a SU-30MKI aircraft model in NAL's 1.5 m low speed wind tunnel. The other significant contributions include: development of indigenous system for Detection and Hit Visualization using Acoustic N-wave Identification (DHVANI) for locating bullet hits on targets for the Indian Army, support to LCA Tejas programme, acoustic qualifications of subsystems for the indigenous cryogenic stage used in ISRO's GSLV-D5, and acoustic qualification of ISRO's recent successful Mars Orbiter Mission satellite. The significant non-strategic contributions include: MoU with India Meteorological Department for the joint production of NAL developed DRISHTI systems to be installed at all airports in the country, development of lab scale aerospace grade autoclave to meet the needs of academia and R&D institutions, and demonstration of 500 W + 500 W wind solar hybrid system.