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Air Marshal P V Athawale
Pramod Vasant Athawale: Commissioned in the Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) branch of the IAF, Air Marshal Pramod Vasant Athawale PVSM, AVSM, VSM, retired as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ...ver másPramod Vasant Athawale: Commissioned in the Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) branch of the IAF, Air Marshal Pramod Vasant Athawale PVSM, AVSM, VSM, retired as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command on August 31, 2011. An Electrical Engineering graduate from the University of Roorkee and a Computer Science post graduate from IIT, Kharagpur, he is presently a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. He has undertaken diverse and intense assignments and made exemplary multidisciplinary contributions. His wide canvas of work spanning 38 years of service includes fighters, transports, communication systems, aircraft and systems’ testing, defence standardisation, aircrew duties and projects in avionics, ground sensors integration and networking.
He pioneered software initiatives as the first Commandant of the Software Development Institute (SDI) and executed many developmental projects. With equal élan, he carried out the role of Chief Engineering Officer at the largest MiG-21 operating base. He headed Signals and IT at Air HQ before switching to core maintenance functions as head of the Maintenance Command.ver menos