Commander YVV Prasad is a Senior Naval Veteran; and of 43 Years of professionalism. Decorated with many professional awards/recognitions! A recipient of “Best Citizens of India” & “Glory of India” Awards for his dedicated contributions to the ‘Indian Defence Industry & its Growth’! Padma Shri Nominee (One of the highest Indian National Civilian Awards)!

He had served Indian Navy for 21 years (with his last rank earnt as a Senior Commander and select-placed for Naval Captain), then Bharat Electronics Limited (on lateral absorption at the behest of Ministry of Defence to lead a classified top National Integrated EW Project Program for Navy) & then Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (Defence PSUs/MoD) for 06 years at very senior positions & also certain private sector defence & aerospace companies for 16 years in Top management positions (as Vice President, Divisional Head, Executive Director, Country-Head, Senior Vice President & Principal Strategic Adviser etc.). Highly ranked expert-professional in Defence, aerospace, C4I2SR systems & Homeland Security and Cyber-defence!

A well-known top-professional in Border-Security Management/Homeland Security Projects with an outstanding performance & true-credibility for having guided Border Security Force/MHA and the Bid-Winning Firms for “Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System Project” at India International Borders with numerous sensors integrated and operated by a C2I (integrated Command & Control) platform. Mapped many border-lengths/AoIs for Border-Security planning & commissioning of systems! Mapped many military and civil airfields/airports for comprehensive surveillance and perimeter security! A Visionary in Strategic Security-Planning with hands-on expertise! He was an adviser to Bharat Electronics, Tata, Astra, Ador & others. He is currently advising “Optimized Electrotech Limited, Ahmedabad with its operations in Bangalore.

He is a graded ‘R&M Professional’ by DRDO for his contributions in ‘R&M studies of EW and Missiles’. One of the EW projects headed by him won the DRDO R&D Excellence award. He is assessed highly well by the industry-forums for his excellent system-building strengths in new defence-technologies and hot-spot Defence Technology-Domains. He is recognised & acknowledged for his professional contributions to many national integrated and indigenous programs in defence, aerospace & homeland security. He is assessed on high ranks as a defence strategist/defence-analyst. He is a noted defence columnist. He has so far been a Professional Member of every major Indigenous Defence Major Integrated Program in India.

He holds many professional distinctions and national credentials. He has been a member of defence-Standing Committees at CII & FICCI. He is also deeply acknowledged for his expertise and knowledge-assets in “IT & embedded systems” in Mil-Aero (Military and Aerospace) and HLS (Home Land Security) domains; and also, in “Cyber-Defence/Cyber-Security and e-Infrastructure”. He has done his post-graduation in Cyber Security from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. He holds multiple engineering & management qualifications and he has also done Strategic Finance Management from IIM-Bangalore.

He had contributed extensively for many naval vessels and also for almost every type of Indian military aircraft in some form through his projects & deliveries. He had closely worked in the past with Ministry of Defence/DDP for many a policy formulation, offsets, export-initiatives; and in his earlier career, he was in Defence Minister’s overseas’ delegation too. He was commended a number of times on different professional occasions by the Chief of the Naval Staff, many Directors of R&D labs, many international firms and other industry-dignitaries. His contributions in Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, Integrated Naval EW Programs, Advanced Strategic Technology Vessel Program, Su-30 Indigenous Program, Jaguar Upgrades program, Light Combat Aircraft Project and Integrated Border Management program had earnt him many recognitions and acknowledgements.

During his professional life of 43 years, he has served the Nation in many roles like a ‘Defence & Aerospace Program-Head’, major ‘Contributor to many Defence Technology Programs’, a ‘Strategic Thinker’, a ‘Visionary for defence SMEs’ growth’, a Strategic Adviser to Ministry of Defence/Ministry of Home Affairs Projects, a distinguished ‘Professional Speaker in National defence forums’ and also a noted ‘Professor in Academia’. He is listed by ‘International Society of Who’s Who of Professionals’. He is honoured by BITS-Pilani as their ‘Adjunct Faculty’ and also by many academic institutions of excellence as their Academic adviser.