Commodore Sundeep S Randhawa — Director of Naval Operations (DNO), Indian Navy — delivered on Operational and Material Stretch for Maritime Forces resulting from Coastal Inundation and Salinization during the Professional Session IV — Second NMF- KAS Symposium.

About the Speaker

Cmde Sundeep Singh Randhawa, is an alumnus of the Indian Naval Academy and was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jul 1996. He is currently tenanting the appointment of Cmde (Naval Operations) at Naval Headquarters, Delhi.

A qualified Ship’s Diver and a specialist in Navigation and aircraft direction, his tenures of duty at sea have included minesweeper INS Bhavnagar, missile corvette INS Kirch, aircraft carrier INS Viraat and P15 destroyer INS Delhi. His Command tenures have included the Dvora class Fast Attack Craft INFAC 80, missile vessel INS Nashak and indigenous Kolkata class destroyer INS Chennai. He has the distinction of being the commissioning Executive Officer of the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and was among the first set of serving officers chosen to tenant Director-level posts at the newly created Department of Military Affairs at the Ministry of Defence. His appointments ashore have included Flag Lieutenant to the Chief of Naval Staff, Staff Officer (Navigation and Direction) at Headquarters, Flag Officer Sea Training, Command Plans Officer at Headquarters, Western Naval Command Directing Staff at Naval War College, Goa and Officer-in-Charge Navigation and Direction School, Kochi.

The officer holds an MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from University of Mumbai and a Masters in Defence Studies from Kings College, London. He has undergone the Advanced Command and Staff Course at Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham (UK) in 2008-09 and the Naval Command Course at US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island in 2016-17. He has been a recipient of Commendations from the Chief of the Naval Staff and the FOC-in-C, Southern Naval Command.