TASKING and dSPACE India Sign MoU to Advance Aerospace and Defence Software Development, Testing and Validation in India

Ben­galu­ru, India, 27 August 2026 – TASKING India and dSPACE India Solu­tions today announced the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) at ESSS 2026 in Ben­galu­ru, estab­lish­ing a strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tion to sup­port the design, develop­ment, vir­tu­al­iza­tion, ver­i­fi­ca­tion, val­i­da­tion, and sim­u­la­tion of safe­ty- and mis­sion-crit­i­cal soft­ware for Indi­a’s rapid­ly expand­ing aero­space and defence sec­tor.

The part­ner­ship brings togeth­er TASK­ING’s inte­grat­ed soft­ware develop­ment tool­chain, includ­ing com­pil­ers, debug­gers, and unit test­ing solu­tions, with dSPACE’s exper­tise in model-based develop­ment, sim­u­la­tion, auto­mat­ed test­ing, code gen­er­a­tion, mid­dle­ware solu­tions, con­tin­u­ous val­i­da­tion in SIL and HIL for sen­sor fusion line-replace­able units (LRUs). Togeth­er, the com­pa­nies aim to help aero­space and defence orga­ni­za­tions address increas­ing soft­ware com­plex­i­ty while meet­ing strin­gent safe­ty, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and com­pli­ance require­ments.

For TASKING, the col­lab­o­ra­tion fur­ther strength­ens its grow­ing port­fo­lio of solu­tions for mis­sion-crit­i­cal soft­ware develop­ment. The com­pa­ny’s acqui­si­tion of LDRA in 2025 sig­nif­i­cant­ly expand­ed its capa­bil­i­ties in soft­ware ver­i­fi­ca­tion, test­ing, trace­abil­i­ty, and stan­dards com­pli­ance, rein­forc­ing TASK­ING’s posi­tion as a trust­ed tech­nol­o­gy part­ner for high­ly reg­u­lat­ed indus­tries, includ­ing aero­space and defence.

For dSPACE India Solu­tions, the MoU rep­re­sents an impor­tant mile­stone in expand­ing its pres­ence with­in Indi­a’s aero­space and defence ecosys­tem. Glob­al­ly, dSPACE has sup­port­ed aero­space and defence pro­grams for more than two decades, with its tech­nolo­gies deployed across com­mer­cial avi­a­tion, defence, and space appli­ca­tions by lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing Air­bus, BEL, Moog, Thales Ale­nia Space, and the Ger­man Aero­space Cen­ter (DLR).

As India accel­er­ates invest­ments in indige­nous aero­space and defence capa­bil­i­ties under ini­tia­tives such as Atmanirb­har Bharat, both com­pa­nies rec­og­nize the grow­ing demand for inte­grat­ed engi­neer­ing envi­ron­ments that reduce develop­ment risk, improve soft­ware qual­i­ty, stream­line ver­i­fi­ca­tion activ­i­ties, and accel­er­ate cer­ti­fi­ca­tion readi­ness.

“Indi­a’s aero­space and defence ecosys­tem is enter­ing a peri­od of unprece­dent­ed inno­va­tion and growth. Through this col­lab­o­ra­tion with TASKING, we are bring­ing togeth­er glob­al­ly proven tech­nolo­gies and exper­tise that can help orga­ni­za­tions devel­op and cer­ti­fy safe­ty-crit­i­cal soft­ware with greater con­fi­dence,” said Andreas Gau, CEO and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, dSPACE India Solu­tions. “This MoU reflects dSPACE India Solu­tions’ com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing the long-term evo­lu­tion of aero­space soft­ware engi­neer­ing in the coun­try. This col­lab­o­ra­tion will help our cus­tomers estab­lish a uni­fied work­flow across the soft­ware develop­ment and val­i­da­tion life­cy­cle for a sin­gle pro­gram. By inte­grat­ing best-in-class develop­ment, test­ing, sim­u­la­tion, and ver­i­fi­ca­tion capa­bil­i­ties, orga­ni­za­tions can sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve engi­neer­ing effi­cien­cy while reduc­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion effort and time-to-approval for safe­ty- and mis­sion-crit­i­cal sys­tems,” said Suresh Kamate, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Aero­space & Defence Busi­ness, dSPACE India Solu­tions.

“Mod­ern aero­space and defence sys­tems demand the high­est lev­els of soft­ware reli­a­bil­i­ty, safe­ty, and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion readi­ness. By com­bin­ing TASK­ING’s exper­tise in trust­ed soft­ware develop­ment and ver­i­fi­ca­tion tool­chains with dSPACE’s strengths in sim­u­la­tion and val­i­da­tion, we are cre­at­ing a pow­er­ful foun­da­tion for cus­tomers devel­op­ing next-gen­er­a­tion mis­sion-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions in India. We look for­ward to work­ing close­ly with dSPACE India to help orga­ni­za­tions accel­er­ate inno­va­tion while meet­ing the most rig­or­ous indus­try stan­dards,” said Christoph Her­zog, Co-CEO and CTO, TASKING.

The MoU estab­lish­es a frame­work for col­lab­o­ra­tion across the aero­space and defence soft­ware develop­ment life­cy­cle. TASKING and dSPACE India Solu­tions will engage with cus­tomers, indus­try stake­hold­ers, acad­e­mia, and ecosys­tem part­ners to advance engi­neer­ing excel­lence, strength­en cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pre­pared­ness, and sup­port the develop­ment of safer, more reli­able aero­space and defence sys­tems in India.

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About TASKING

TASKING is a lead­ing provider of embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools that com­pile, debug and test. These tools enable embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers to devel­op reli­able, high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions for a safer future. Found­ed in 1977, TASKING is com­mit­ted to expand­ing its port­fo­lio to deliv­er a sin­gle-sup­pli­er, cer­ti­fi­able tool chain. As a trust­ed part­ner focused on cus­tomer need, exper­tise and a com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty, TASKING and its inte­grat­ed tool chain accel­er­ate the soft­ware develop­ment life­cy­cle for safe­ty and secu­ri­ty crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions in indus­tries such as auto­mo­tive, aero­space and defense, indus­tri­al, med­ical, robot­ics and oth­ers.

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About dSPACE

dSPACE is a lead­ing glob­al provider of sim­u­la­tion, val­i­da­tion, and cyber­se­cu­ri­ty solu­tions for devel­op­ing and test­ing soft­ware- and elec­tron­ics-based sys­tems. In aero­space and defence, its model-based develop­ment, sim­u­la­tion, and cer­ti­fi­able code gen­er­a­tion capa­bil­i­ties sup­port safe­ty-crit­i­cal soft­ware across com­mer­cial avi­a­tion, defence, and space appli­ca­tions. Best known for its long-stand­ing auto­mo­tive exper­tise, dSPACE’s solu­tions also serve agri­cul­ture, indus­tri­al automa­tion, ener­gy, rail, and marine indus­tries. With more than 2,900 employ­ees, dSPACE is head­quar­tered in Pader­born, Ger­many, with project cen­ters across Ger­many and region­al com­pa­nies in the USA, UK, France, Japan, China, Croa­t­ia, South Korea, India, Swe­den, and Italy.

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