The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on August 25, 2022 appointed Samir V. Kamat as Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development and Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation.
- Incumbent chairman G. Satheesh Reddy has been made the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister.
- Mr. Kamat will retain his post till the age of 60 or further orders.
- He has obtained B. Tech. (Hons) in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1985 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA in 1988, specialising in the area of mechanical behaviour of materials.
