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Aeronautical Development Agency
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Indian governmental aircraft design agency
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. It is an affiliate agency to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and has developed the Tejas and is developing the Tejas Mk 2, TEDBF and AMCA.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersBengaluru1
- Websitewww.ada.gov.in
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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. It is an affiliate agency to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and has developed the Tejas and is developing the Tejas Mk 2, TEDBF and AMCA.2
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Facilities
ASMS
System Design and Evaluation Facility
Computing Center
Iron Bird
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LCA Hangar
Lightning Test Facility
Virtual Reality
Wind Tunnel Testing Facility
Core Integration & Flight Testing Centre, Puttaparthi for the AMCA programme
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, and 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
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Timeline
- 1984Founded Founded1
Links
- Websitewww.ada.gov.in1
- WikipediaAeronautical Development Agency
- WikidataQ4688351
Sources
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