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Indian governmental aircraft design agency

Aeronautical Development Agency

Parent Agency - Ministry of Defence
Agency overview
Formed 1984; 41 years ago (1984)
Headquarters Vimanapura, Doddanekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ministers responsible Rajnath Singh, Defence MinisterSamir Kamat, Chairman DRDO and ex officio Secretary, Dept of Defence Research and Development
Agency executive Jitendra Jaisingh Jadav[1], Director General – ADA (since 11 September 2024)
Website www.ada.gov.in Edit this at Wikidata

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]

Software development

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ADA has established advanced state of the art computing centre with several 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.

  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. ^ a b "BEL inks MoU with ADA for advanced medium combat aircraft programme". Business Standard. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2025.