| Agency Name: | Aeronautical Development Agency |
| Seal: | Ministry of Defence.png |
| Headquarters: | Vimanapura, Dodda Nekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Minister1 Name: | Rajnath Singh |
| Minister1 Pfo: | Defence Minister |
| Minister2 Name: | Samir Kamat, Chairman DRDO and ex officio Secretary, Dept of Defence Research and Development |
| Chief1 Name: | Jitendra Jaisingh Jadav[1] |
| Chief1 Position: | Director General - ADA (since 11 September 2024) |
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under Department of Defence Research and Development (DR&D) of India's Ministry of Defence was established at Bangalore, in 1984 to oversee the development of the nation's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme. It has developed Tejas and is developing Tejas Mk 2, TEDBF and AMCA.
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.