| Established | 1986 |
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| Director | Dr UK Revankar |
| Address | P.O. Box #9366, CV Raman Nagar, Bangalore - 560 093, |
| Location | Bangalore, Karnataka |
| Telephone | 080-25347746 |
| Operating Agency | DRDO |
| Website | DARE Home Page |
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Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Located in Bangalore, Karnataka, it is the main DRDO lab involved in the Research & Development of Airborne Electronic Warfare and Mission Avionics systems.
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DARE was established in 1986 as a Project Laboratory, then named "Advanced Systems Integration and Evaluation Organisation" (ASIEO). On June 1, 2001, it became a full fledged DRDO lab, and was renamed as DARE.
On 1st of july'08, Dr. U.K.Revankar taken over as Director. DARE was headed by Dr. K.G. Narayanan from 1986-2002. On January 18, 2002, R.P. Ramalingam was appointed as Director and retired in june'08. He retired on 31st July 2011.
Shri PM Soundar Rajan assumed charge as the Director of Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), Bangalore on 1st August 2011.
Shri PM Soundar Rajan graduated from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai in 1973 as an Electronics and Communication Engineer. He obtained his Masters from IISc in the same field in 1989.
He commenced his professional career in 1973 with LRDE. During his tenure at LRDE he designed and developed digital communication systems. From 1978-1996, he served as part of ADE contributing towards the Flight Testing and LCA Avionics Integration activities. He joined DARE (erstwhile ASIEO) in 1996. He contributed towards the development and integration of Mission Computer and other Avionics systems for the Su30 MKI aircraft under the project Vetrivale.
As the Chief Designer and Project Director of the MiG27 avionics upgrade, he has successfully upgraded the aircraft which is currently in Squadron Service.
He is the recipient of AGNI Award for excellence in Self Reliance for the year 2003 and DRDO Performance Excellence Award for the year 2008.
DARE has two major wings– the Electronic Warfare (EW) wing and the Mission Avionics Wing (MAW). The EW wing concentrates on development of Radar Warning Systems and EW suites for aircraft. The MAW conducts Research and Development in the area of Mission Avionics. In addition to development, DARE also conducts testing and integration of the systems into aircraft.
DRDO's avionics program has been a success story; DARE being the lead designer in several of these efforts. Its Mission computers, radar warning receivers, high accuracy direction finding pods, airborne jammers, flight instrumentation, are used across a wide variety of Indian Air Force aircraft. The organization began developing these various items for its upgrades, and for the LCA project. Variants were then developed for other aircraft.
The DRDO is also codeveloping more advanced avionics for the Light Combat Aircraft and the IAF's combat fleet. These include a range of powerful Open Architecture computers, better Defensive avionics including modern RWR's, Self protection jammers, Missile approach warning systems and integrated defensive suites, Optronics systems (such as Infrared search and track systems) and navigational systems such as Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial navigational systems.
Some products developed by DARE include: