Aeronautical Development Agency
 Parent Agency - Ministry of Defence | |
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| Formed | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Vimanapura, Dodda Nekkundi, 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]
Facilities
[edit]- ASMS
- System Design and Evaluation Facility
- Computing Center
- Iron Bird
- LCA Hangar
- Lightning Test Facility
- Virtual Reality
- Wind Tunnel Testing Facility
Software development
[edit]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.
- Autolay
- CADTRANS
- FINESSE
- FINEGRAF
- GITA
- PRANA
- GNRETING
References
[edit]- ^ Deshpande, Smruti (13 September 2024). "Man behind Tejas milestone, Jitendra Jadhav takes over as chief of aeronautical development body". ThePrint. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- ^ a b "BEL inks MoU with ADA for advanced medium combat aircraft programme". Business Standard. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
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