Shri Uppala Venkateswarlu, popularly known as “U.V. Warlu” was born in Ghantasala Village, Krishna Dist., AP on 16th December, 1927. After Graduation he did his DMIT (now B.Tech) from Madras Institute of Technology with distinction and 2nd rank.

Shri U.V. Warlu was Vice-President and Chairman, Apex Forum of IETE 2003-04. He was the Chairman of the Centre for the record four terms i.e. for the year 1984-85, 1985-86, 1990-91 and 1991-92. He has been elected to the IETE Council as a Member and served as Vice-President for the year 1985-87, 1997-2000 and 2001-2004. In admiration of his services to the Electronic Industry in general and IETE, Hyderabad Centre in particular the annual Endowment Lecture has been instituted in his name in the year 1996. So far, nine lectures were organized in the IETE at Hyderabad. Shri U.V. Warlu’s contribution to the IETE, Hyderabad Centre has been immense.

He served as Chairman for 12 leading Companies. Shri U.V. Warlu went abroad several times either for training or as a Member of study groups or as adviser for presenting papers at International conventions etc. He was Chairman of numerous Committees / Panels / Working groups appointed by DAE, DOE, DST, DNES etc. He has published around 15 technical papers and around 20 policy papers on Electronics and Energy subjects. Shri Warlu was the first recipient of the Nayudamma Award in 1986 for services in the area of Electronics and Energy by Indo-Japanese Friendship Association. With an objective to promote educational facilities in the State Shri Warlu has established a Foundation called “Warlu Educational Foundation”. To begin with, in token of his love for his native village, Shri Warlu has established an Industrial Training Centre at Ghantasala which started functioning from 1997-98.

He has been instrumental for the tremendous progress made by this Centre. Shri U.V. Warlu passed away on 2nd October, 2004. The Hyderabad Centre of the IETE lost a great visionary and an elderly guide.

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Shri Rajat Pal, Sc ‘G’, DRDL is Project Director, Program PJ10 with the responsibility of indigenous development of integrated Weapon Complex of BrahMos Missile System. He also leads planning & development activities for similar system for other programs of DRDL. Under his leadership a state of art, C4I based weapon complex has been designed, developed and inducted in the services. The technology areas encompassed in the systems are real time decision support softwares for Command Control, 3D GIS based planning, wide variety of secured and software controlled communication system and multitier security system for access and data transfer.

In his earlier major assignments, he was responsible for successful realization of an integrated network of underwater instrumentation and communication system. Also in a pivotal role, he contributed towards successful development and induction of ELINT / SIGINT systems in the Indian Airforce for both airborne and ground mobile application.

He did his B.E. and M.E. from Jadavpur University and is Life Fellow of IEIE and Member of IEEE.

The War management during the last two decades has undergone very rapid evolution towards an integrated approach. War is hardly planned today solely based on capability of individual weapon system, air or sea strike capability. Dynamic war strategy based on situation awareness, use of optimum resources, integrated sensor network, collaborative actions, secured communication, geospatial information processing, pinpoint and timely attack, integrated logistic support have been the focus of today’s warfare. Commonly used jargons like Network Centric Warfare, C4I2SR, Digital Battlefield etc relate to these expectations of Today warfare. The modern weapon systems are being developed with emphasis on exploitation of information management and technology, interoperability, analytical and computational tools for automated situational awareness and decision support. The associated technological issues are reliable and secured communication, security key management for message transfer, networking of sensors, survivability and scalability of integrated systems. The command doctrine, clearly defined roles ‘for the man in the loop’, authorization, authentication, nonrepudiation are also very important issues in designing such systems particularly for collaborative action plans. The testing of the integrated systems and validation of software are becoming complex and critical. The planning, designing, development and rapid realization of reliable and complex systems compliant for the network centric warfare regime will continue to be key issues to attain superiority over adversaries in the decades to come.