Aeronautical Development Agency

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Aeronautical Development Agency
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Parent Agency - Ministry of Defence
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Agency overview
Formed1984;42 years ago (1984)
HeadquartersVimanapura, Doddanekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ministers responsible
Agency executive
  • Jitendra Jaisingh Jadav [1] , Director General – ADA (since 11 September 2024)
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The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), under the Department of Defence Research and Development (DR&D) of India's Ministry of Defence, was established in Bangalore in 1984 to oversee the development of the India's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme. [2] It has developed the Tejas and is developing the Tejas Mk 2, TEDBF and AMCA. [2]

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Facilities

Software development

ADA has established advanced state of the art computing centre with powerful equipments and software. ADA has developed specialised software in the fields of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), avionics, systems, independent validation and verification, flight simulation. The spin-off benefits of the research and development is realised with help of commercial partnership with leading multi-national companies such as Boeing, Airbus, IBM, Dassault Systèmes, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). The following are some of the software developed for the LCA-Tejas development programme.

References

  1. Deshpande, Smruti (13 September 2024). "Man behind Tejas milestone, Jitendra Jadhav takes over as chief of aeronautical development body". ThePrint. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 "BEL inks MoU with ADA for advanced medium combat aircraft programme". Business Standard. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2025.