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Shri Nagaraja R B

Director General, DGAQA

Shri Nagaraja R B is working as Director General , AQA since 1st Dec,2025. He has done his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka university. He joined DGAQA establishment in 1993 and has experience of more than 30 years in military Aeronautical Quality Assurance service. He has vast technical experience on various defence projects during development and production phases at various Field Establishment such as:

Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH).
Light Combat Helicopter (LCH).
Cheetah/Chetak Helicopters at ORDAQA (Helicopters) Bengaluru.
Air Armaments, Seat Ejection Cartridges for various aircrafts, Canopy severance system for LCA A/c at ORDAQA(AA) Pune.
Akash Missile System, NAMICA at MSQAA Hyderabad.
AL-31FP and RD -33 aero engine for Su-30 and MIG 29 A/c at OADG (Koraput).

He has immensely contributed in establishing Quality Management System in various divisions of HAL. He has provided quality assurance coverage and actively participated in various field trials of ALH helicopter i.e. Sea Level Trials at Chennai, Ship deck Trials at Goa, High Altitude trials at Leh. He has been trained on manufacturing of composite main rotor blade/tail rotor blade for ALH helicopter at M/s Eurocopter Germany.

He has headed various FEs of DGAQA namely MSQAA(Hyd), MSQAA (Bengaluru), ORDAQA (Helicopter) as Director and OADG (Koraput) as ADG before assuming the charge of DGAQA.