NIT Trichy graduate Raj Iyer becomes US Army's first Chief Information Officer

One of the most noteworthy positioning Indian-American regular people in the US Branch of Safeguard, Dr Raj Iyer, has taken over as  Chief Information Officer of the US Armed force after the Pentagon made the situation in July a year ago. 

In an assertion, the Pentagon said the Indian-American who holds a PhD in Electrical Designing fills in as the vital counsel to the Secretary of the Military and coordinates portrayal of the secretary in issues identifying with data the executives/information technology  (IT). 

Identical in position to a three-star General, Iyer will administer a yearly spending plan of $16 billion for the US Armed force's IT tasks. In excess of 15,000 regular folks and military staff posted across 100 nations work under him. 

Iyer will coordinate the execution of arrangements and projects to modernize the US Armed force to accomplish advanced overmatch against close friend enemies, for example, China and Russia. 

The Military has focused on utilizing trend setting innovations, for example, distributed computing, advanced mechanics and man-made brainpower as basic empowering influences for future warfighting through an idea called multi-space tasks. 

Already, Iyer was a rtner and managing director at LLP, where he drove numerous innovation programs supporting government customers. 

Throughout the span of his 26-year profession, Iyer has upheld a scope of protection and business customers on various complex endeavor change difficulties, including system, development and modernisation. 

He has set up new associations, including the main office of the Central Innovation Official in the Military, helped to establish an effective innovation fire up, and drove recuperation projects, for example, Obamacare. He additionally holds a patent and has distributed many friend looked into papers. 

Iyer holds a Ph.D. from the College of Texas at Arlington alongside numerous experts degrees, including an Expert of Business Organization from the College of Michigan at Ann Arbor and an Expert of Science in Electrical Designing from The College of Texas at Arlington. 

Iyer, initially a local of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, experienced childhood in Bengaluru and finished his undergrad learns at the onal Foundation of Innovation Trichy prior to moving to the US to seek after higher examinations. 

In the US, he had scarcely enough cash to pay for educational cost and lease for one semester through his dad's life investment funds, however was soon ready to tie down a full partnership to finish the entirety of his alumni training. 

His dad Manakkal K Ganesan, a designer filling in as General Manager at Metallurgical and Engineering Consultants (MECON), was instrumental in demonstrating him an energy for public assistance and the estimation of schooling and difficult work, as indicated by a tribute on the web. 

Iyer is hitched to Brindha, a medical services IT program chief in the US government. They have two children, Ashwin Iyer, a rookie studying Information Science at the College of California at Berkeley, and Abishek Iyer, a ninth grader at Centennial Secondary School in Maryland.