Air Traffic Management : Urban & Advanced Air Mobility

Ajit Mate is a retired Wing Commander from the Indian Air Force with over 2500 flying hours in the Transport Fleet of the IAF as a Flying Navigator. He spent 21 years with the IAF during which commanded two Shoulder Fired Missile units and one Air Defense Training School abroad (Sri Lanka), which he helped set up and operationalize. While with the IAF he was a qualified Missile Defense Instructor on Surface to Air Guided Weapon Systems.
Over nine years with Boeing India, he spent the first 5 years on the Defense side of the business as an Operations Analyst and Subject Matter Expert for Aerospace Experimentation with Phantom Works India. Working as the Lead System Engineer Air Traffic Management with the Boeing research and technology team in Bengaluru presently. He was part of the 10 year Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Roadmap that Boeing prepared for the Government of India (Airports Authority of India). He is a Subject Matter Expert in the field of Air Traffic Management, Air Navigation, Air Defense and is currently engaged in multiple ongoing projects and programs related to Airspace Operational Efficiency. His current areas of interest include Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM), Urban & Advanced Air Mobility Solutions for Indian cities and safe integration of future modes of air transport into existing ATM network across the Indian National Airspace System (NAS) .