NADS

Solutions and Technologies for Simulation and Critical Systems

NADS is a privately held European company established in 2002 that operates into military & aerospace global markets providing innovating solutions of training & simulation, command & control and engineering support services.

Since its inception, NADS has been providing technology and engineering solutions to major European aerospace and military programs. Now, NADS is highly specialized in Training & Simulation as well as Command & Control.

Years ago, as a product of its innovation culture and its accumulated expertise in Training & Simulation, NADS started to develop a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software for simulation and C4ISR markets building its own fully-dedicated R&D department. NADS worked for years jointly with the Spanish Ministry of Defence in the development of our product SIMWARE.

Nowadays, NADS is one of the new challenging leaders of middleware for distributed simulation, having a growing community of users all around the world, participates regularly in key standardization & scientific organizations like OMG, SISO, NATO RTO and has partnership agreements with some of the key industry players.

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CAPABILITIES

NADS has a strong expertise in Systems Engineering and a high specialization in SIMULATION & TRAINING as well as in Systems Engineering for Mil/Aero projects.

COMMAND & CONTROL

LOGISTIC SUPPORT

Combat Management Systems

SME
Specs
Development
Testing
OBTS

C4ISR & Critical SW Development

C2IS software development
UAV GCS software development
Tactical Data Distribution
Weapon Systems SW

Integrated Logistic Support

Reliability & Maintainability
Maintenance Planning
Material Support Services
Technical Data / Publications
Manpower and Personnel

MODELLING, SIMULATION & TRAINING

Training Aids Solutions

Computer Based Training (CBT)
Web Based Training (WBT)
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Desktop Training Systems
Simulation exercises over the web

High-fidelity Simulation

Full Flight Simulators
Flight Training Devices
Full Mission Simulators
Embedded Training

Distributed Simulation

Live Virtual & Constructive
Simulation Interoperability
Simulation Middleware

Customers & Experience

NADS has been awarded with important workpackages of main European contractors & integrators in many of the most emblematic European defence programs such as EF2000, A400M, TALARION and TIGER.

In Spain, NADS has been participating as a Tier-1 subcontractor in many programs for the Navy (SCOMBA, S80, F105), the Army (SKYDOR) and the Air Force (A400M, EF2000, EF-18).

NADS is a traditional provider of companies like INDRA, NAVANTIA, AIRBUS MILITARY and CASSIDIAN.

International Projection

NADS is a global company with important presence in Spain and France and offices in Madrid, Cádiz and Paris.

Headquarters

Madrid – Spain

Delegations

Paris- France

Development Centers

Madrid – España (Training & Simulation)
Cádiz – España (Naval Systems Engineering)

PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS

NADS develop a full range of products and solutions that are available worldwide thanks to our network of business partners & distributors.

SIMWARE

SimWare is a middleware for building and managing simulations. SimWare has a full set of tools that allow the user to build a whole simulator starting from the data model. Also have tools for managing this simulator.

* SimWare applications

* Simulation Infrastructure for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

* Traditional simulators
- Design & Build & Deploy a simulator from scratch

* Distributed simulations
- Distribution of the simulation infrastructure over the net
- Development of federations of simulators.
- Joint simulations.
- L-V-C simulation incorporating real data

* Interoperability platform with legacy simulation systems & real systems.
- Multivendor HLA
- HLA-DDS
- DIS-DDS

A3S

A3S means “Advanced Adaptable Avionics Software” and is a new product included in the portfolio of NADS.

A3S is oriented to facilitate the modernization of Fixed-Wing/Rotatory-Wing Aircrafts in terms of providing a Canonical Operational Flight Program (OFP) that can be adapted to fit into different configurations of Integrated Avionics:

Advanced Combat Aircraft
Training Combat Aircraft
Combat Helicopters
Mission Helicopters (Transport, SAR/CSAR)
Navigational / Other Missions

The OFP is a platform independent integrated software written in ADA95 that provides the main and secondary functionalities required to operate different weapon systems from the Mission Computer (MC). It can be certified as RTCA-178B level 2 once it had been adapted to the final on-board platform (all evidences are included) and its development platform can be run in either Intel PC or PowerPC architectures.

EXIM-I

The EXIM-I class trainers are Flight & Navigation Procedural Trainers (FNPT) that includes a high-performance and highly interoperable architecture based on SIMWARE technology.

These Flight Training Devices are perfect to be used in Flight Schools either civil or military. EXIM-I trainers are based on the Piper PA-28 ARROW IV and can be qualified as a FNPT Type I. It can be JAR-STD-3A certified.

This simulator is a low-cost high-performance solution with the lowest costs on maintenance in the market. Its architecture enables to connect any number of them to a Training & Simulation Network, over an ethernet LAN, and even on WAN with an upgrade of its SIMWARE architecture.

Its SIMWARE architecture can be upgraded to newer & advanced versions without affecting its behaviour while adding new features like HLA or DIS interoperability with other systems, or even distributing flight data in real time to participate in big CAX exercises with other teams of pilots.

Optionally, the EXIM-I software can be deployed on a Desktop PC together with the Instructor Position Computer so lowering the costs of large deployments in flight schools.