| Parent Agency - Ministry of Defence | |
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| Formed | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Vimanapura, Doddanekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
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| Website | www |
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]
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.