Shri G Elangovan, Outstanding Scientist has taken over as Chief Controller Research & Development (R&M) with effect form 01 Apr 2007. Prior to taking over as CC R&D (R&M), he was the Director, Aeronautical Development Establishment, a leading lab involved in Design and Development of Unmanned air Vehicles as well as Combat and Engineering Simulators.

Shri Elangovan obtained his B.E (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He Obtained M.Sc. (Engineering) in Applied Electronics in 1974 from PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore. He Joined ADE in

1975 and has successfully executed a number of System related projects, namely Development of CCTV Terrain model Visual system, setting up of Research Simulation facility, Training Simulators for Ajeet and Kiran and setting up of air to Air Combat Simulator facility. He was also instrumental in developing a PC based Flight Simulator and Part Task Trainers which was demonstrated in Aero India 2003, which lead to a Low Cost PC Based Simulator to be developed and demonstrated successfully at the Asian Aerospace held at Singapore. He was Project Director for the development of Computerized Pilot Selection System, which was successfully completed and installed at the Air Force Selection Board, for data collection during in January 2005.

He is a Fellow of IETE and recipient of 4th IETE BV Memorial Award, 2001 and recipient of Path Breaking Research/Outstanding Technology Development Award from DRDO for the year 2002. He is also the recipient of the DRDO Agni Award for Excellence in Self Relinace - 2005 as a Team Leader.