Shashikala Sinha is Scientist G and Project Director of the Endo Atmospheric Interceptor Missile AAD (Advanced Area Defence) — a supersonic ballistic defence missile system that was successfully tested for the second time recently.
An engineering graduate from the IIT-Kharagpur, Shashikala joined the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) in 2001.
She began working on the ballistic missile defence systems programme, working on the RF sensors subsystem.
Shashikala’s team managed to create indigenous ways of working these sensors, delving deep into advanced coding and programming, for which they were awarded the Agni Award for Excellence in 2007.
Shashikala was made the project director for the AAD programme in 2012.
Shashikala, with the Research Centre Imarat (RCI), is an expert in the development of flight vehicles, RF seekers, Radomes, radar cross sections and related technologies.
