Aeronautical Development Agency

**Aeronautical Development Agency**
	Parent Agency - Ministry of Defence
Agency overview
Formed	1984; 41 years ago
Headquarters	Vimanapura, Dodda Nekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ministers responsible	Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister; Samir Kamat, Chairman DRDO and ex officio Secretary, Dept of Defence Research and Development;
Agency executive	Jitendra Jaisingh Jadav, Director General – ADA (since 11 September 2024);
Website	www.ada.gov.in

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

ASMS
System Design and Evaluation Facility
Computing Center
Iron Bird
LCA Hangar
Lightning Test Facility
Virtual Reality
Wind Tunnel Testing Facility

Software development

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.