September2009

Vol 29 No 9

Distinguished Missile Scientist Appointed Secretary, Dept. of Defence R&D, SA to RM & DG, DRDO

Distinguished Missile Scientist of the country, Padma Shree Dr VK Saraswat who is actively associated with the development of various missile programmes, viz., Devil, Prithvi-I, Prithvi-II, Dhanush, Anti-Balllistic Missile Systems, etc. is appointed Secretary, Dept. of Defence R&D; Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri and Director General, DRDO w.e.f. 01 September 2009. Dr Saraswat graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and doctorate in Propulsion Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has specialized in Missile Technologies, Rocket Propulsion and Technology Management.

Dr Saraswat started his career in DRDO at DRDL in July 1972, with development of India’s first Liquid Propulsion Engine, Devil. He established facilities for design, production & testing of engines and the RCS technologies for the missile applications.

As Project Director, he steered the design, development, production and induction of first indigenous Surface–to–Surface missile system Prithvi-I of 150 km range and Prithvi-II of 250 km

In This Issue

v Distinguished Missile Scientist Appointed Secretary, Dept. of Defence R&D, SA to RM & DG, DRDO

v Flagging-Off Ceremony of NBC Reccee Vehicle

vInauguration of Aerospace Technology Centre at CVRDE

v Manpower Development Activities

nMeeting of the Heads of TICs TIRCs of DRDO Labs/Estts

nTraining Programme on Field/ Research Methodologies in Ergonomics

nLaboratory Golden Jubilee Celebrations

nHigher Qualification Achieved

nMoU Signed

nAwards

v Raising Day Celebrations

v Personnel News

n Promotion to Distinguished Scientist

n Promotion to Scientist H

n Promotion to Scientist G

v Visits to DRDO Labs/Estts

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range, into Armed Forces. Naval variant of Prithvi - Dhanush-350 km, ship-launched missile, with very high terminal accuracy has been successfully developed for strategic role. Prithvi Missile occupies a pride place in the inventories of all the three Armed Forces including Strategic Force Command.

As Director, Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad from 2001-2005, Dr Saraswat conceptualized and established facilities for building Technologies for Ring Laser Gyro (RLG), Fibre Optic Gyro (FOG)- based Inertial navigation System, Electro-Mechanical Actuators (EMA), Electro-Hydraulic Actuators, Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS)-based sensors, Rate Tables to calibrate navigation systems for missile guidance & control. He conceptualized and established facilities for development of micro and nano sensors for future avionics. All these technologies are denied by developed countries under Missile Technologies Control Regime (MTCR). With the motto of self-reliance in defence technologies through indigenisation, he established productionisation of many critical technologies with PSUs and industry.

Dr Saraswat took over charge of CCR&D(MSS) at DRDO HQrs, Delhi on 01 November 2005 in addition to Programme Director ‘AD’. He made contributions of high distinction in the country’s strategic programme for Special Weapon Systems. He has been the architect for integration of Strategic systems and delivery systems. With his visionary approach, a multi-layered, secure, strategic communication network has been fielded and made operational, in a record time. The systems conceived by him have been successfully designed, evaluated and operationalised.

As Programme Director ‘AD’, he embarked on a challenging, futuristic Air Defence Programme encompassing development of complex Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems and critical technologies such as Radars, C4I Systems and integration of battle management resources into a national authority. He has spearheaded the concept of theatre defence systems and integration of national Air Defence elements. He demonstrated the interception of a incoming hostile Ballistic Missile in exo-atmospheric regions in November 2006 & March 2009 and endo-

atmospheric regions in December 2007, using indigenous Interceptor and various ground system elements developed indigenously. This has made the nation proud and put India among the world leaders, in the field of Ballistic Missile Defence.

Dr Saraswat has been conferred Padma Shree by the Government of India in 1998. At international level, he has been elected as Member of International Academy of Engineering, Russia. He is recipient of many prestigious national level awards including Prof Jai Krishna Memorial Award of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)-2009 and Outstanding Indian Award from One India One People in 2006. He is the recipient of almost all top-level awards of DRDO e.g. Technology Leadership Award (2007), Path breaking Research and Outstanding Technology development Award (2006), Performance Excellence Award (1998), Technology Transfer Award (1996) and Scientist of the Year Award in 1987. In addition, he has received awards from several professional institutions/ bodies. As a professional recognition, he has been awarded Doctor of Science (Honorius Causa) in Science & Technology by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat. He is member of many professional institutions.

Dr Saraswat has played key role in initiation of new missile programmes viz Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LRSAM) and Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM) for the Navy and the Air Force respectively, in collaborative mode, to provide the country an edge in tactical air defence. In addition, a programme for long range missile Agni-V (5000 km range) has been initiated. He conceptualized Hypersonic Test Vehicle based on his research interest in scramjet propulsion.

His vision for DRDO includes develop DRDO into an acclaimed Centre for International Defence technologies in collaboration with academia and national laboratories, develop and produce weapon systems in collaboration with industry in ready-to-use condition for Armed Forces, develop defence technologies and systems for space security and space control, develop new concept weapons – directed energy, kinetic energy, new-anti personnel weapons, and develop technologies and products for low intensity conflict.

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Flagging-Off Ceremony of NBC Recce Vehicle

The first NBC Recce Vehicle was flagged off on 27 June 2009 at Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur by Lt Gen Gautam Dutt, VSM Engg- in-Chief, Army Headquarters, Shri M Natarajan, SA to RM and DG R&D DRDO, Dr D Banerjee, DS & CC R&D (AMS), Lt Gen AM Verma, GOC 12 Corps, General Manager of OF, Medak and BEL, Pune, Directors from DRDO HQrs and Directors

and senior scientists of participating labs were also present.

The key of this vehicle was handed over by Dr D Banerjee, DS & CC R&D (AMS) to Engg-in-Chief. Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur is the nodal agency for the development of NBC Recce Vehicle. Amry has given the limited series production order of eight NBC Reconnaisance Recce Vehicles to DRDO and the same are under production by OF, Medak and BEL, Pune by involving industry from private sector.

A modern Centre named, Aerospace Technology Centre providing facilities for the Aircraft Projects

at Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE), Avadi, Chennai, such as aircraft mounted accessory gear box, hydraulic filters, power-take-off shaft, aircraft bearings, and 5 kW permanent magnet brushless D C generator, was inaugurated by the founder and visionary Scientist, Shri. M. Natarajan, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri on 3 August 2009.

The building has a clean room of class 1000 for carrying out aircraft bearing assemblies. The building also has other utilities like compressed air, cooling system, cranes and power backup. The function was presided by Shri. S. Sundaresh, Director, CVRDE. Officers and Staff from CVRDE, DRDO Head Quarters and other allied establishments participated in the inaugural function.

Shri S Sunderesh, OS & Director, CVRDE, Shri M Natarajan, SA to RM and Shri Ajay Singh CCE (Works) at the inaugural Function

INAUGURATION OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

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Manpower Development Activities

The Meeting of the Heads of TICs/TIRCs was held on 29 July 2009 at the historic Circular

Hall, Metcalfe House, Delhi, organised by Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC). Dr AL Moorthy, Director, DESIDOC welcomed the Chief Guest, Dr D Banerjee, DS & CC R&D (AMS), Dr R Sreehari Rao, OS & CC R&D (ECS), the Guest of Honour, Shri MR Kesheorey, Associate Director, CAIR and Heads from different DRDO TICs/TIRCs.

Dr D Banerjee, DS & CC R&D (AMS), inaugurated the meeting and delivered the inaugural address. Dr Banerjee highlighted the contributions made by Dr SR Ranganathan, father of the Library Science and the importance of the five laws of the library science. He requested the LIS professionals to transform the TICs into Knowledge Centres.

Dr R Sreehari Rao, OS & CC R&D (ECS), DRDO HQrs delivered a Special Address and explained the importance of the Institutional Repository, Digital Library and Union Catalogue of Periodicals, etc. During his address he appreciated Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) for its excellent contributions to the DRDO research community. During his speech he emphacized the importance of paperless libraries over intranet/internet and access to resources on cutting edge technologies.

The meeting was spread in to two technical

sessions : DRDO E-Journal Services and the DRDO Library Procedures and Practices.

The Technical Session I was chaired by Dr R Sreehari Rao, OS & CC R&D (ECS). Shri A Balavardhana Rao, Sci F, DMRL was the Rapporteur. Shri SC Saxena, Convenor of the Meeting briefed the DRDO e-journal services and explained the current status of the services, usage statistics, etc. The chairman requested the participants to popularise the services among their respective lab users to enhance the services. In this session, 5 presentations were made by the zonal representatives. Dr Aruna, Sci F, GTRE, presented on behalf of Bangalore zone labs about the e-journal services. Dr Aruna divided e-journals into 3 parts as core journals, importance to have and nice to have. The presentation was based on the feedback collected from the Bangalore-based labs. Dr Nageswara Rao, Sci E, DRDL, presented on behalf of Hyderabad zone labs. Smt SS Avachat, Sci F, ARDE, presented on bahalf of Pune region and Dr Rajeev Vij on behalf of North zone labs.

The major recommendations/observations made are: multiple downloads at a time may be permitted, more training sessions are required for the users, e-journals access to be extended, separate servers may be inatalled to access the e-journal services, perpetual access needs to be provided to all DRDO labs, one lecture may be organised at each CEP course organised by different labs to popularize the e-journal services among the DRDO user community.

The participants felt that henceforth the Annual Meeting be called as DRDO TIC Heads Conference

Meeting of the Heads of TICs/TIRCs of DRDO Labs/Estts

Shri SC Saxena, Dr R Sreehari Rao, Dr D Banerjee and Dr AL Moorthy at the Inaugural Function of the Heads of TICs/TIRCs Meeting

Dir Dr D Banerjee, DS & CC R&D (AMS) delivering inaugural address (Inset)

Shri MR Kesheorey, Associate Director, CAIR chairing the Technical Session on DRDO Library Procedures and Practices

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Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS) organised a Training Programme on Field/Research Methodologies in Ergononics during 20-24 July 2009 on the request of ANGR Agricultutral University, Hyderabad, for the women scientists working in various state agricultural universities. Eighteen participants engaged in design, development, and dissemination of low-cost women friendly agriculture and entrepreneurial t e c h n o l o g i e s to enhance the productivity and safety of the workers attended the programme.

The topics covered during the programme focussed on different ergonomics methods such as anthropometry, evaluation of posture, centre of gravity, musculoskeletal disorders, aerobic and anaerobic oxygen consumption, energy

expenditure, heart stress and mental workload.The programme was inaugurated by Dr

G Ilavazhagan, Director, DIPAS. Dr Manas K Mandal, Director, DIPR delivered a keynote address. The faculty included Prof P Dhara, Dept

of Physiology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, Dr Deepak Sharan,

N e u r o m u s c u l o s k e l e t a l Rehabilitation Centre,

Bangalore and Dr AK Ganguly, National

Model Centre of O c c u p a t i o n a l Health, BHEL Tiruchirapalli and scientists from DRDO.

Dr Krishna Srinath, Director, AICRP

delivered the valedictory note on Technology

Intervention and Evaluation on Gender in Agriculture - Research and

Methodological Issues”. Dr S Majumdar, Addl. Dirctor, DIPAS was the Course Director.

Meeting of the Heads of TICs/TIRCs ....

to have a better perception.Technical Session II on DRDO Library Procedures

and Practices was chaired by Shri MR Kesheorey, Assoc. Director, CAIR; Shri RS Rathore, Sci F, DLJ was the Rapporteur. Shri Kesheorey appreciated the LIS professionals and their valuable services to the DRDO fraternity to carry out the ongoing projects and their successful completion.

Dr AL Moorthy, Director, DESIDOC explained the importance of setting-up a DRDO Institutional Repository as it will showcase the intellectual output of the organization to the world. He explained

the e-learning portal developed by DESIDOC. He requested the Heads of TIRCs to collect the CEP course mateial organized by the respective labs and send to DESIDOC for uploading. Shri Yogesh Modi, Sci B, DESIDOC presented the various modules, facilities created for uploading, correcting, editing data of respective labs, downloading/printing the data in the DRDO Union Catalogue of Periodicals Database developed by DESIDOC.

The meeting ended with vote of thanks from Shri SC Saxena, Sci E, DESIDOC, convenor of the meeting.

Training Programme on Field/Research Methodologies in Ergonomics

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Laboratory Golden Jubilee Celebrations

XVII Prof DS Kothari Memorial Oration

Defence Laboratory (DL), Jodhpur, organised seventeenth Prof DS Kothari Memorial Oration on

26 June 2009. Prof KL Chopra, former Director, IIT-Kharagpur delivered oration lecture on Electricity from Sun. Shri M Natarajan, SA to RM and DG R&D, DRDO presided over the function. Dr D Banerjee, Distinguished Scientist & CC R&D (AMS), DRDO HQ, Prof Chopra, three former Directors of DLJ and Directors from DRDO HQrs and laboratories graced the occasion. Faculty members and scientists of various academic and research institutes of Jodhpur were also present on this occasion.

Dr Narendra Kumar, Director, DLJ welcomed the Chief Guest. Prof KL Chopra and Shri M Natarajan, SA to RM. Dr D Banerjee, in his special address highlighted the qualities of Prof Kothari and the everlasting impression of people related to science, education and human values. He said that Dr Kothari was the architect of Defence Science in India.

Prof Chopra, a student of Prof DS Kothari began

his oration by remembering those teachers who are rare and who do not just teach but inspire students

to learn. He said that the late Prof Daulat Singh Kothari belonged to this extraordinary

category. Prof Chopra dedicated his lecture to the memory of Prof Kothari a

great teacher, thinker and philosopher of scientific knowledge.

Prof Chopra in his oration said that India is blessed with relatively more abundant solar energy. He brought out various technologies and the need to develop them to harness this naturally available abundant source of energy to

meet the growing requirement for sustainable development of the

country. He concluded that issue before any society is not a choice of

conservation, coal, nuclear or renewable sources. Rather it is our willingness to

conserve coal and nuclear and renewable resources such as SPV.

Shri PK Bhatnagar, Sci G, Chairman Organising Committee of XVII Kothari Memorial Oration proposed vote of thanks.

Institute of System Studies and Analyses (ISSA), Delhi as a part of ISSA Golden Jubilee Celebrations

organised series of lectures. On 2 July 2009, a lecture on ‘Total Quality Person’ by Dr Ramanan, Director, National Academy of Training and Development, Delhi was organised. He initiated his lecture by highlighting the four basic needs of humans - physical, social, mental and spiritual. Physical includes food, shelter, clothing, health and economic well being. Social needs related to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. He said that there are four dimensions - Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual - for integrated personality development. He highlighted the concept that pure mind leads to noble thoughts, selfless action, and good result while an impure mind

leads to impure thoughts, selfish action and doubtful result. Dr Ramanan discussed the model for enriching productivity and the concept of total quality person. He brought out the importance of body language, smiling and developing the right attitude, keeping everything straight and simple in being effective communicators. He also detailed on the ten commandments of Total Quality Person - Integrity, excellence, interdependence, proactive, synergy, emotional bank accounts, personal mission statement, happiness, and success. His lecture was spiritually enlightening. It triggered the minds of all scientists and was well appreciated. Director, ISSA reinstated his thoughts by virtue of some presentations.

DL, Jodhpur

ISSA, Delhi

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MoU

Lab Golden Jubilee Celebrations....

management, fixed geometry air intakes, very low wing-loading and single afterburning turbofan. The LCA technologies include dual redundant processor- based USMS, zero-zero ejection seat, advanced avionics, glass cockpit, advanced materials quad digital FCS, and high performance engine. These technologies also contribute to the reliability of the aircraft. He also listed out the maintainability features, use of composites in LCA airframe. He compared

Another lecture in the series was organised on 8 July 2009 on ‘Developments in Aircraft Technologies’ by Dr Kota Harinarayana, Emeritus Professor NAL and Raja Ramanna Fellow and former Program Director, Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). Dr Kota said that aviation is one of the important technological developments of twentieth century. He emphacised the role of air superiority in winning the war. He then elaborated on the spectrum of LCA programme, the major technology drivers including airframe structure, propulsion, avionics and weapon, flight control, design, signature and configurations, and aerodynamics. He talked about the challenges in LCA programme, generations of fighters, viz., subsonic, transonic, supersonic, bi-sonic, tri-sonic, health agility and stealth. Dr Harinarayana also spoke about the features of LCA, i.e., tailless delta with compound sweep, high degree of static instability, quad-redundant digital fly by wire, all composite airframe, all glass cockpit, microprocessor-based utility systems

the glass cockpit of LCA with Swedish light aircraft Gripen. He elaborated on the environmental control system, hydraulic system, secondary power system, brake management system and nose wheel steering system, test and integration system, lightening test facilities, iron bird facility. He covered the entire spectrum of LCA technologies starting from basics of avionics upto the new technologies which will be used in future.

Director, ISSA introducing Dr Ramanan

Dr Kota Harinarayana giving presentation

Indian Air Force has signed an MoU with BEL for the supply of 30 numbers of Rohini Radars at a value of Rs 2001 crore. This is in addition to the order of seven numbers of Rohini radars already placed with BEL at a cost of Rs 275 crore.

This radar is a shining example of the success story of indigenous 3 D surveillance radar development by LRDE with BEL - Industry partnership.”

MoU Signed

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Raising Day Celebrations

DESIDOC, Delhi

Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi, celebrated its 39th Raising Day on 01 August 2009 with gaiety and fervor. Dr W Selwamurthy, Distinguished Scientist and CC R&D (LS&HR) was the Chief Guest. Dr A L M o o r t h y , Director, DESIDOC, welcomed the Chief Guest. Dr Selwamurthy appreciated the work of DESIDOC and showed satisfaction on the quality of the publications, e-journals approach to knowledge gateway facility, etc.

He stressed the need to build modern infrastructure for the documentation services. He said DESIDOC should have repository of all important projects. Directors from Delhi-based DRDO laboratories and Dtes at DRDO HQrs, former Directors and former em p l o y e e s of DESIDOC graced the occasion. The Chief Guest also gave away lab level awards,

mementoes to employees completing 25 years of service in DRDO, and prizes to the winners of the sports and cultural events. It was observed as an open day for the visitors.

DL, Jodhpur

Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur celebrated its 50th Raising Day on 27 June 2009 on the conclusion of Golden Jubilee Year of DL, Jodhpur. The function was presided over by Shri M Natarajan, SA to RM and DG R&D, DRDO. Dr D Banerjee, Distinguished Scientist & CC R&D (AMS) was the Guest of Honour.Former Directors, Dr AR Reddy, Dr Ram Gopal, and Shri RK Syal and Directors from DRDO HQrs and Labs/Estts were facilitated.

Dr W Selwamurthy,DS & CC R&D (LS & HR) lighting the lamp. Also seen Dr AL Moorthy, Director, DESIDOC and Shri Ashok Kumar, Addl. Director

Seventh edition of the

LRDE House Magazine Vidyuth

Spandhan has bagged the first

prize under the award scheme of

the Ministry of Defence for th

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best magazine publish

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Hindi for th

e year 2006-07.

The award carries a cash

award of Rs. 25000/- and

a Certificate.

Awards

Scientists and Directors at the DESIDOC Raising Day Celebrations

The laboratory awards were given away by Shri Natarajan. The Golden Jubilee Mementoes were given to all working and retired employees of the laboratory. A cultural programme was also organized on the occasion.

Release of DLJ Golden Jubilee Compendium

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PERSONNEL NEWS

PROMOTIONS

Promotion to Distinguished Scientist

CC R&D (R&M)

Shri G Elangovan, Chief Controller R&D (R&M) DRDO HQrs obtained his BE (Hons) in Electrical Engineering in 1972. from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and MSc (Engg) in Applied Electronics in 1974 from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

Subsequent to completion of his studies, he spent about one year as Associate Lecturer in Government College of Technology, Coimbatore. Thereafter, he joined ADE, Bangalore, in the year 1975 as Junior Scientific Officer and was part of the Avionics & Flight Simulation Division. During his 32 years career at ADE, he has successfully executed a number of system related projects. He was Project Director for a number of simulator projects including LCA Engineering Simulator, Avionics Part task Trainer and Computerised Pilot Selection System.

He has graduated step-by-step from a design engineer to technology division leader, to system designer to a number of simulator projects, to corporate manager, heading the Lab as Director and finally as CC R&D in DRDO Headquarters.

He is a Fellow of IETE. He has been awarded 4th IETE - BV Baliga Memorial Award in the year 2001 and was one of the recipients of DRDO Pathbreaking Research/Outstanding Technology Development Award–2002 for the contributions in Digital Flight Control System for Light Combat Aircraft. He received the Agni Award of Excellence–2005 for the development of Computerised Pilot Selection System.

CVRDE, Chennai

Shri S Sundaresh, Director CVRDE has been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Scientist He has a rich experience in Technology management and Project management in the domain of Combat vehicles. After completing his graduation in Electrical Engineering from

Madras University in 1971 and post graduation in Control Systems from IIT Madras in 1973, he joined Naval Science and Technological Laboratory, Vishakapatnam in January 1974. During his tenure at NSTL from 1974 to 1986, he carried out the design and development of control and guidance systems for underwater weapons successfully and the roll and course control and guidance system of an anti-ship torpedo was productionised.

He moved to Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment, Avadi in 1986, where he was responsible for the Integrated Fire Control System (IFCS) for the Main Battle Tank Arjun. He led the development of IFCS for MBT Arjun through successful weapon system trials and users acceptance. He received the DRDO Technology award for this contribution in 1996. He guided his team in the successful development of indigenous electro-hydraulic gun control system, gunnery training simulator and Battle Management System. He headed the LCA work centre at CVRDE since 1996 and has successfully led his team in qualifying the Aircraft mounted Accessory gearbox and the hydraulic filters for the Light Combat Aircraft(LCA). He was nominated as the Chairman for the ‘Soldier system Study Group’ in 2002. He piloted a team of scientists from DRDO labs in this study and submitted a proposal for a multi lab DRDO Programme for the ‘Soldier as a System’.

Shri G Elangovan, Chief Controller R&D (R&M) DRDO HQrs; Shri S Sundaresh, Director, CVRDE and Dr A Subhananda Rao, Director, HEMRL have been promoted to Distinguished Scientist wef 27 August 2009. Biodatas highlighting their contributions in DRDO have been reported in this issue.

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He assumed the charge as Director, Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment, Avadi, with effect from 01 September 2005 when the main focus of the lab was on MBT Arjun production. He spearheaded resolving of teething issues in its initial production phase by addressing the Quality and Reliability aspects and ensured the induction of MBT Arjun into the Indian Army by proving two tanks from the first batch of Production through Accelerated User cum Reliability Trials (AUCRT). With the third batch of 16 tanks issued in May 2009, First Regiment of MBT Arjun in Indian army is operationalised.

Under his leadership, production of CI Ajeya and Armoured Ambulance materialized. A carrier command post tracked vehicle was developed against GSQR which is cleared for induction. In the domain of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), a prototype teleoperated BMP II has been developed for configuration to different military applications. He guided development of many technologies such as Driving and Gunnery Simulators on six degree motion platform, Automatic Target Tracker, mobile camouflage system for MBT Arjun and established modern infrastructure facilities for Automotive and Aircraft subsystems.

He has presented a number of technical papers in the National Workshops and Conferences and in the International Conferences. He is a Fellow of IETE, Senior Member in IEEE, Member in SAE and FPSI.

HEMRL, Pune

Dr A Subhananda Rao, Director, HEMRL has been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Scientist. Born in 1950, Dr. A. Subhananda Rao, is a gold medallist during graduation (Mech. Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. He continued his

academic excellence during his M.E (Aeronautics) from prestigious IISc, Bangolare, by receiving “Roll of Honour”. He completed his doctorate from Osmania University, Hyderabad on topic entitled “Fracture Behaviour of Solid Propellant Rocket Motor Grains”.

He is an acclaimed propulsion designer and has designed, developed, realized, productionized and evaluated more than 30 indigenous propulsion systems for strategic and tactical missiles. He has been associated with development of propellant processing plants of various capacities in the country, production plants for key propellant ingredients HTPB and AP in private sector. This has given self-reliance to DRDO and India in production of propellants. He has developed several infrastructure for testing and evaluation of solid propellant motors, which includes, flex seal test set-up, 6-component test bed, environmental qualification facility and rocket assembly facility. He has been instrumental in development of several softwares for performance prediction of solid propulsion units.

As Director HEMRL, he has successfully executed creation of composite propellant processing plant for case-bonded rocket motors. He has been instrumental in productionization of several advanced key high-energy materials like GAP, CL-20 in industries. Under his dynamic leadership, energetic superelastic rocket propellants, modular charge system for gun ammunition, high-energy LOVA propellants, insensitive plastic bonded explosive formulations, advanced anti-thermal anti laser smoke grenades, flares for countermeasures, fuel air explosives, hybrid armour for tank protection, new insensitive molecules FOX-7 and TATB, were developed, tested and adopted for operational systems. He has developed a strong management set-up to ensure safety and quality in the operation on one side and meeting time-bound development of stores on other hand.

For his contributions, he has been awarded Gold Shield award for import substitution for surface-to-air missile SAM-II and distinguished Alumni award from his alma-matter NIT, Warangal. Indian Council of Management Executives has recognized him as Samaj-Shri and awarded him order of merit. In recognition to his outstanding contribution, DRDO has awarded him with Scientist of the Year award – 2005, DRDO Spin-off Technology Award – 2006 and Titanium Trophy – 2007 (as Head of establishment). All these prizes, he received personally from Prime Minister of India. He has been recipient of DRDO performance excellence award –2007. He has received Path Breaking Research Award for two years in succession in 2006 and in 2007. He has

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been awarded Distinguished Alumni award in 2008 from IISC, Bangalore. He is President of High Energy Materials Society of India (HEMSI) and Chairman of AeSI (Aeronautical Society of India), Pune Chapter. He is fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and member of ISAMPE and Astronautical Society of India.

He has over 45 technical publications to his credit in various jo urnals and seminar/conference proceedings. He has participated and chaired sessions in national and international seminars.

Promotion to Scientist H

Some DRDO Scientists have been promoted to Sci H and Sci G wef 01 July 2009. Biodatas of some of the promotees highlighting their contributions in DRDO have been reported in this issue while profiles of some of the other promotees would be reported in the subsequent issues of the DRDO Newsletter.

CAIR, Bangalore

Shri VS Mahalingam, Director, CAIR, joined DRDO after obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy. He obtained his M Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and has undergone advanced training

in Software Engineering at Indus Tech, Pittsburgh, USA.

Shri VS Mahalingam has made pioneering contribution in the development of C3I System for Indian Army. His deep specialization is in Command, Control and Communication Systems. He was a key member of project team for Artillery Combat Command and Control System (ACCCS) under Project Shakti, which automates the field Artillery functions of the Indian Army.This was the first C3I project of the Indian Army. Shri Mahalingam has been the Project Co-ordinator (1999 - 2006) for development of Command Information Decision support System (ClDSS) under Project Samvahak. He led and built a strong team for executing Project Samvahak, the flagship C3I project of the Indian Army. In particular, he has extensively

harnessed the private sector IT industry for software development. Apart from maintaining a close rapport with the users, he has involved several experts from the industry and academic institutions in the development activities of the Project.

He has published several papers in various International and National forum. He received the DRDO Scientist of the Year Award in 2002. He is one of the members of team which received the Agni Award for Excellence in Self Reliance (Project Shakti) in the year 2003. He was elevated to the post of Director, CAIR in November 2006 and to Outstanding Scientist in July 2009

DIPR, Delhi

Prof Manas K Mandal, Director, Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), Delh, born on 1 November 1956, obtained his postgraduate and doctorate degrees from Calcutta University in 1979 and 1984, respectively. He has completed his post-doctoral research

programme at Delaware University (Fulbright Fellow), USA, in 1986-87 and at Waterloo University (Shastri & NSERC Fellow) Canada, in 1993-94.

Dr Mandal worked as a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur. He was also a Visiting Professor at Kyushu University, Japan in1997. During 2003, he was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, USA. He has been awarded various research fellowships and scientific awards at national and international levels, such as, International Scientific Exchange Award (Canada), Fulbright Fellowship (USA), Shastri Fellowship (Canada), Seymour Kety grant (USA), Career Award (India), Young Scientist Award (India), DRDO Spin-off Technology Award – 2007, etc.

He has to his credit seven books, and 100 research papers including 78 published in international peer-reviewed journals. These research work have been cited in more than 150 international journals and books.

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Dr Mandal has specialized in the areas of cognition and experimental neuropsychology. He has contributed significantly in the development of Selection System for Armed Forces and Civil Authorities. His expertise in the area of neuropsychology helped DIPR to design a human engineering programme. His contribution in the area of strategic behaviour analysis is also noteworthy. In 2005, Dr Mandal and his team had been awarded ‘Agni Award for Excellence in Self- Reliance’ for the contribution towards the development of ‘Computerized Pilot Selection System.’ For his overall contribution to Military Psychology, he was given away the Scientist of the Year Award’ in 2006 by the Prime Minister.

GTRE, Bangalore

Shri T Mohana Rao joined DRDO in 1971 and worked in R&D (E), Pune and CRI, DTD & P (AIR), Koraput, and GTRE, Bangalore in various capacities. He has successfully developed sub-systems for the Kaveri engine in addition to involving himself actively in the testing of Aero

Gas Turbine Engines and Project Management. He is a Post graduate in Mechanical Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad and a member of Aeronautical Society of India.

He has published a number of papers in national and international journals. He is the recipient of Dr VM Ghatge National Award for outstanding contribution to aerospace technologies and Award of Excellence from All India Manufacture’s Organization (AIMO).

IRDE, Dehradun

Shri SS Sundaram, born in 1951, graduated in Physics from Madras University. He is a gold medalist in MSc (Tech) in Applied Physics from Andhra University. He was CSIR Research Fellow working in Ionosphere studies for an year and published many research papers. He has done

his MTech in Advances Electronics from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

He joined DRDO at Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL) as SSA in during 1976. Later, he was selected in Indian Engineering Services and was in-charge of installation and commissioning of All India Radio and Door Darshan studios and transmitters in Imphal, Silchar, Patna etc.

During 1981, he re-joined DRDO at the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL), Hyderabad. He then worked as designer of communication SW systems code named TISII, Golf Mk II, Strawberry, Cherry, Garnet, SUJAV, SUJIT, BOX, etc. Later, he shouldered the responsibility as Programme Director of Samyukta comprising communication and radar electronic warfare systems for the Army. Samyukta was a mega project of DRDO costing more than Rs 1300 crore. Under his stewardship, the system has been successfully inducted into the Services.

Shri Sundaram was appointed Director, Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun wef 1 April 2007. As Director IRDE, he gave a new thrust to enhance the night fighting capability of Indian soldiers, including the form-fit upgradation of the in-service equipment by incorporating newer technologies and development of new generation of electro-optical fire control and surveillance systems. In his brief stint of little over two years as Director IRDE, three major systems of IRDE have been accepted by users for introduction in to Services and few others are on the anvil of acceptance.

He received the DRDO Award for Excellence in Performance 2005 from the Prime Minister of India as team leader. He is a fellow of IETE, and Optical and Instrument Societies of India.

ITR, Balasore

Shri SP Dash, Director, Integrated Test Range (ITR), Balasore, born on 1 January 1955 obtained BTech (Hons) in in Electronics & Communication with distinction in 1977 from IIT Kharagpur. He joined

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DRDL as SSO II (Ad hoc) in November 1977 and rose to the level of Scientist G in July 2001. During January 2002 to February 2007, he was Assoc Director at RCI, Hyderabad. He took over as Director, ITR in March 2007.

As Director, ITR, Chandipur, he successfully conducted 102 flight tests and evaluation of rockets, missiles and weapon systems of national and international importance meeting the mission requirements and objectives of programmes of DRDO, Army, Navy and Air Force. Flight tests were conducted from various launch complexes in Chandipur, the Launch Complex at Wheeler island in Dhamra, INS Kalinga, Vizag and Andaman Nicobar Island with wide spread range instrumentation network spread over land, sea and air covering the entire trajectory profile of various missions. Extensive instrumentation was provided for the above missions. The mission scenario and the requirements varied from flight-to-flight and mission to mission depending on its complexity especially mission with multi-missile and multi-target, long and medium ranges and air-to-air mission posed a real challenge for the range instrumentation and test facility.

He received the DRDO Award for Path Breaking Research/Outstanding Technology Development in 2006 for Program AD as a team member; DRDO Award for Path Breaking Research, Outstanding Technology Development for Program SF&D as a team member in 2007; DRDO Award for Performance Excellence for Program B-05 ( K-15) as a team member.

NPOL, Kochi

Shri Anantha Narayanan born in 1953 obtained his BTech in Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras (1975) and MTech in Electronics from IISc, Bangalore (1985). He is a Gold Medalist (SVC Ayya Gold Medal) of IISc. He is also an alumni of the National Defence College, New

Delhi, where he has undergone one year training on National Security and Strategy during 2003.

He joined DRDO in 1975 as Junior Scientific Officer at DRDL, Hyderabad. Subsequently, he was transferred to Naval Physical Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi, in 1978. He was appointed as Director, NPOL on 1 January 2007.

He has contributed to the development of several sonar systems for the Indian Navy. He was part of the development team of the frigate sonar Project APSOH. He was the Team Leader for the Project APSOH Simulator which was established in ASW School, Naval Base in 1985. During 1993-98 he was the Project Director for India’s first indigenously developed submarine sonar Project, Panchendriya, which paved the way for self-reliance in this field. As Director (Systems), he was instrumental in streamlining the production and induction of HUMSA Frigate sonar, TADPOLE sonobuoys and USHUS Submarine sonar. As Director NPOL, he is instrumental in productionising the new generation frigate sonar HUMSA NG in a very short span of time. He has also accelerated the development work on towed array and airborne sonar systems in the laboratory. He is keenly interested in commercialisation of defence technology, industry interaction and Human Resource Development. He received the DRDO Scientist of the Year Award in 1995 for his outstanding contributions in the development of Naval Systems.

He is a member of Ultrasonics Society of India and fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India.

RCI, Hyderabad

Shri VL Narasimha Rao born in October 1949. He obtained his graduation in mechanical Engineering from Andhra University in 1971 and Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1974. Realising the R & D requirements

of the nation in missile technology, he opted for a career in DRDO and joined Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad in 1975. He contributed in the area of Liquid Propulsion, Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines & systems being

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used in Prithvi missile which inducted into Army. He later worked for Agni Programme and participated in the development of long range surface to surface missiles. Presently, he is working as Project Director for Ballistic Missile Defence systems. He has been awarded “Scientist of the Year” in 2001 for Design & Development of AGNI - 2 (A2) Flight vehicle. He is an active member of many professional institutions like Aeronautical Society of India & Astronautical Society of India.

SAG, Delhi

Dr PK Saxena, born on 5 July 1952 obtained his MSc (Mathematics) from Kanpur University in 1971 and PhD (Algebra) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1978. Later, he worked as Mathematics Lecturer for a brief period in National Institute of Technology (formerly Regional

Engineering College), Silchar (1979-80) and National Defence Academy, Pune, (1980-81). He joined Scientific Analysis Group (SAG), DRDO in 1981 as Scientist ‘C’ and became Scientist ‘G’ in 2002.

His areas of interest include algebra, cryptology, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks and speech technology. He has published 59 research papers in national, international journals and conference proceedings. He has been project leader for basic research and some important research and development projects. He has guided many BE and ME projects and supervising PhD work for scientists registered at Delhi University, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Jadhavpur University, Kolkata.

Apart from techno-managerial activities, he has been very actively involved in organising national, international conferences, technical reviews of research papers for journals and delivering invited lectures at different forums and in DRDO Labs and academic institutes.

He received Commendation Certificate for his

significant contributions in the area of fuzzy logic. His book on cryptography written Hindi was awarded first prize of DRDO in 1997.

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DLRL, Hyderabad

Shri Rama Rao Rayani born, on 14 August 1953, graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Andhra University in 1975 and MTech in Instrumentation & Control Systems from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in 1978.

He joined Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL) Hyderabad, in September 1978. He started his career with the design and development of Command Generation System (CGS) for a surface- to-air guided missile project -TRISHUL which has been successfully proved in the flight trials. He is responsible for development of direction finding receiver and Display sub-systems of a heliborn ESM Project-Sapphire.

He has taken up higher responsibilities as Project

Manager and Project Director of Airborne Systems of Programme SANGRAHA. The three Airborne Projects, viz., KITE –a heliborne ESM System for Chetak and Kamov helicopters, EAGLE - an airborne ESM System for Dornier aircraft and HOMI - a high accuracy airborne system for TU-142 aircraft have been successfully proved on the respective platforms.

Fifteen numbers of KITE, 12 numbers of EAGLE and five numbers of HOMI systems have been productionised, inducted in service and are being exploited by the Navy. Based on the satisfactory performance of the systems, Navy has placed additional orders for 47 numbers of KITE and eight numbers of EAGLE systems.

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Smt KS Beenamole, Sc ‘E’, Electronics and Radar Development Establishment has been awarded PhD in Electronics and Communication for her Thesis titled ‘Studies on Active Phased Array Antenna Elements’ from the Dept of ECE, Osmania University, Hyderabad, in July 2009.

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He has led the teams of airborne project right from the design phase to the induction phase and shouldered major responsibilities in successful completion of programme SANGRAHA. In recognition of his contribution and services towards SANGRAHA Programme he was awarded with DRDO Performance Excellence Award in 2002.

RCI, Hyderabad

Shri L Sohan Kumar obtained his BTech (Mech) in 1984

from NIT, Warangal and MTech (Control Systems) in 1990 from IIT, Bombay, Mumbai. He joined as Sci B at R&DE (E), Pune, in 1984. He has contributed in the areas of electrohydraulic actuation sytstems for missile launchers while working in R&DE(E), Pune. He joined Research Centre Imarat, Hydeabad, in 1990 and is working in the areas of electrohydraulic, electromechanical, electro-pneumatic control actuation systems for different missile applications.

He has published a number of papers in national/international conferences. He is member of Aeronautical Society of India and Fluid Power Society of India. He is the recipient of Agni Award of Excellence in Self-Reliance -2003, Agni Award of Excellence in Self-Reliance -2005 and DRDO Path Breaking Research Award-2007.

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CAIR, Bangalore

Lt Gen JP Singh, AVSM DCIDS (PP&FD) on 13 July 2009.

Lt Gen DS Chauhan AVSM GOC-10 Corps on 16 July 2009.

Shri PM Heblikar Addl Secretary Cabinet Secretariat on 24 June 09.

CABS, Bangalore

Air Vice Marshal Daljit Singh, VM ACAS (Ops), on 17 July 2009

Air Vice Marshal RK Sharma, VSM ACAS (Plans), on 22 July 2009

Air Marshal NV Tyagi, PVSM VSM VM, DCAS, on 29 July 2009

LRDE, Bangalore

VADM Nirmal Verma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Flag Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, Chief of Naval Staff (Desig) on 6 August 2009

Demonstration by NCW&SG – D team to Lt Gen JP Singh, AVSM DCIDS (PP&FD

Air Vice Marshal RK Sharma, VSM ACAS showing keen interest in the activities of CABS

VADM Nirmal Verma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC being briefed about the activities of LRDE