Advisory Board

Air Marshal S. Bhojwani, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC Former Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, Indian Air Force

Air Marshal Subhash Bhojwani studied at Modern School, New Delhi and joined the National Defence Academy in 26th Course.  He was commissioned on 16th Oct 1965. The Air Marshal has over 4,500 hours of flying on Hunter, MiG 21, Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and a host of training aircraft including Kiran and HPT-32.  He flew 31 missions during the Indo-Pak War of Dec 71 and was 'Mentioned-in-Despatches’ for gallantry.  He is a Fighter Combat Leader and a Cat A-1 QFI.

His important appointments have included the Command of 28 Sqn and 30 Sqn, Chief Operations Officer at Ambala and Air Officer Commanding of Air Force Station, Gwalior.  He has also held appointments at Air HQ in the Directorates of Operations & Weapons, Personnel and Air Staff Inspections.  His assignments as a Flying Instructor have included tenures at Air Force Academy, Fighter Training Wing, Flying Instructors’ School and Iraqi AF College, Tikrit.  He has been a DS at the Defence Services Staff College and College of Air Warfare. 

Air Marshal Bhojwani’s last three appointments have been Commandant, Air Force Academy (2000-2002) which is the premier training institution of the IAF, Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) Western Air Command, where he closely directed all air operations, including the newly inducted network centric assets such as UAVs, aerostat radars, integrated air defence activities, etc. His final appointment was as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, Bangalore.  He is the author of a number of papers on air training and operations.

 

Vice Admiral Pradeep Kaushiva, UYSM, VSM Former Commandant, National Defence College and former Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, Information Warfare & Operations, Indian Navy

An alumnus of the 30th Course of NDA, Vice Admiral Pradeep Kaushiva was commissioned into the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy in January 1968. He specialised in Signal Communications & Electronic Warfare and has attended the Naval Higher Command Course.

Admiral Kaushiva has commanded the missile boats INS Prachand & Veer, the Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel Vijaya and the guided missile frigate INS Ganga. His other important afloat assignments include the appointments of Fleet Communications Officer, Western Fleet and Fleet Operations Officer, Eastern Fleet. Ashore, he has been Director, Naval Signals & Electronic Warfare and Director, Naval Operations at Naval Headquarters.

After promotion to flag rank, he has been Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Information Warfare & Operations) ; Deputy Commandant & Chief Instructor, National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet based at Visakhapatnam and Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command at Kochi. In August 2005 he was promoted to Vice Admiral and appointed Commandant, Naval Academy. Prior to his superannuation from naval service, on 30 Sep 2007, he was the Commandant of the National Defence College, the highest seat of military learning, at New Delhi.

 

Major General Shankar Krishna Murthy, VSM Former Additional Director General, Tactical Communications and Former Chief Signals Officer of Command, Indian Army

Major General Shankar Murthy, an alumni of NDA, was commissioned into Corps of Signals in December’69.

He is an M.Tech. from IIT Delhi and holds a Diploma in Business from MDI, Gurgaon. He has attended the Staff College, Higher Command and NDC course on Strategies and Structures and has been an instructor in the Military College of Telecom Engineering.

He has vast experience in combating insurgency and terrorism. He was Brigade Major in insurgency ridden Mizoram, intelligence officer against the LTTE gorillas in war ravaged Sri Lanka and Commanding Officer in terrorist infested Kashmir.

He has been playing lead roles in projects relating to Information Warfare, Network Centric Operations, Information Systems and Strategic Backbone Communications.

He has vast experience in large Project Management, having executed over a 100 projects in his capacity as Chief Signals Officer of Corps in the Eastern and Western Theatres. As Chief Signals Officer of Command, he was the architect of a new network for the hinterland. He has served in Head Quarters Integrated Defence Staff, wherein he played a stellar role in Defence - Industry Partnership, Spectrum Management at National level, and drafting policy documents for Defence Procurements. His last assignment was Additional Director General Tactical Communications, where he headed a two billion dollar project.

 

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