Pillars of BrahMos
Dr. A G Leonov
Alexander Georgievich Leonov, a design engineer and Doctor of Technical Sciences, is the Director General and Designer General of JSC "MIC" "NPOM". He played a vital role in military and technical cooperation of NPOM with foreign partners. Dr. Leonov largely contributed in the preparation, finalisation and signing of critical organisational documents, directive of the Russian President, Inter-Governmental Agreement between India and Russia from the Russian side, thereby paving the way for the inception of the Joint Venture BrahMos. Dr. Leonov was also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of BrahMos from 2001 for five years. Under his leadership, activities related to BrahMos in Russia are going on successfully.
Shri Atul Dinkar Rane is an outstanding defence scientist renowned for his decades of sustained R&D contributions in the indigenous design & development of mission critical Onboard computers (OBC), hardware in loop simulation studies, Systems analysis, development of mission software and avionics technologies for defence applications.
