C.P. Ramanarayanan has taken charge as the Director-General of Aeronautical Systems, DRDO, with effect from June 1, according to an official statement.
Dr. Ramanarayanan, Distinguished Scientist, succeeds K. Tamilmani who has superannuated. Prior to this post, he was Chief Controller, R&D (HR).
Based in Bengaluru, the aeronautics cluster of seven labs is one of the seven cluster labs of the military R&D organisation.
The new DG (Aero) has a Ph.D. in Energy Systems from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He has also served as the Director of DRDO lab GTRE (Gas Turbine Research Establishment) in Bengaluru, at VRDE, Ahmednagar, and as Project Director for thermal propulsion development for heavy and light weight torpedoes at naval research lab NSTL, Vishakhapatnam.
