New Delhi: The government of India has appointed Atul Dinkar Rane as the new Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the BrahMos Aerospace Limited. India and Russia’s joint venture ‘BrahMos’ missile manufactured by the BrahMos Aerospace Limited.
Rane graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guindy Engineering College, Chennai, and received his post-graduate degree in Guided Missiles from the University of Poona.
Atul Dinkar Rane joined DRDO in the year 1987 and started his initial career at Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) as System Manager and carried out simulation studies and established modular real-time simulation test mechanisms for the indigenously developed Surface to Air Akash Missile System.
Later as part of the onboard computers division, Research Centre Imarat (RCI), he led the development of Onboard Mission Software for Agni-I missile and also established a unique integrated testbed facility for seamless test and evaluation of Onboard Systems for various missile projects.
Rane is renowned for his decades of sustained R&D contributions in the indigenous design and development of mission-critical Onboard Computers (OBC), hardware in loop simulation studies, systems analysis, development of mission software, and avionics technologies for defense applications.
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