Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Navy

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy
Incumbent Rear Admiral BAKSP Banagoda
Sri Lanka Navy
Type	Very senior army post
Abbreviation	DCOS
Reports to	Commander of the Navy
Residence	Colombo
Seat	Navy HQ
Nominator	President of Sri Lanka
Appointer	President of Sri Lanka
Term length	Not fixed

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy (DoSA) has been the title of the third in command of the Sri Lanka Navy. The post is held by a regular officer of the rank of Rear Admiral and is the third senior position in the Navy. Deputy Chief of Staff is charged with assisting the Chief of Staff of the Navy in both operational and administrative aspects, functioning as the Acting Navy Commander in his absences or incantation.

List of deputy chiefs of staff

No	Chief of staff	Took office	Left office	Notes
	Rear Admiral Susith Weerasekara	Feburary 2010	October 2012
	Rear Admiral Neil Rosayro	11 July 2015	7 November 2017
	Rear Admiral Piyal De Silva		2 July 2018
	Rear Admiral Jagath Ranasinghe		31 December 2018
	Rear Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne		4 May 2019
	Rear Admiral Niraj Attygalle		7 November 2019
	Rear Admiral Kapila Samaraweera	8 November 2019	12 September 2020
	Rear Admiral Sumith Weerasinghe	22 September 2020	14 January 2021
	Rear Admiral Ruwan Perera	15 January 2021	20 March 2021
	Rear Admiral Meril Sudarshana	21 March 2021	19 May 2021
	Rear Admiral Y. N. Jayarathna		August 2021
	Rear Admiral Upul De Silva	7 September 2021	20 June 2022
	Rear Admiral Priyantha Perera	21 June 2022
	Rear Admiral Anura Ekanayake	09 July 2022	12 October 2022	Appointed as Deputy Chief of Staff while he is holding office as the 06th Director General of the Sri Lanka Coast Guard.
	Rear Admiral Jayantha Kularatne	12 October 2022
	Rear Admiral Priyantha Perera		8 July 2022
	Rear Admiral Nishantha De Silva		23 December 2022
	Rear Admiral Pradeep Rathnayake	23 December 2022	16 January 2024
	Rear Admiral KWARI Ranasinghe	04th April 2024