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{{short description|Jordanian defence company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Jordan Design and Development Bureau
| logo = JODDB logo.png
| logo_size = 160px
| native_name = {{lang-ar|المركز الأردني للتصميم والتطوير}}
| former_name = King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau<br>King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau
| type = [[State owned company]]
| industry = [[Defense (military)|Defence]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1999}}
| location_city = [[Amman]], [[Amman Governorate]]
| location_country = [[Jordan]]
| area_served = [[Middle East]]
| key_people = [[Saoud Nsairat]] ([[Chairman]])<br>[[Br. Gen.]] [[Mohmmad Suleiman Farghal]] ([[CEO]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaddb.com/en-us/ABOUT-US/BOARD-OF-DIRECTORS-MD|title=Board of Directors & MD - KADDB|author=KADDB|access-date=2019-12-07|archive-date=2016-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314003255/http://www.kaddb.com/en-us/ABOUT-US/BOARD-OF-DIRECTORS-MD|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| products = Military equipment
| owner = [[Jordanian Armed Forces]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.joddb.com/}}
}}

The  '''Jordan Design and Development Bureau''' (JODDB) is a [[Jordan]]ian defence company. The company was established by Royal Decree as '''King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau''' (KADDB) on 24 August 1999 to provide an indigenous capability for the supply of scientific and technical services to the [[Jordanian Armed Forces]] (JAF).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYgYDAAAQBAJ |title=Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism Beyond the Arab Uprisings |first=Fawaz A. |last=Gerges |publisher=Springer |year=2016 |isbn=9781137530868}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Ripley | first=T. | title=Middle East Air Power in the 21st Century | publisher=Pen & Sword Aviation | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-84884-099-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMq7fhIe-yYC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Sorenson | first=D.S. | title=Civil-Military Relations in the Modern Middle East | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-5381-6920-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIWrEAAAQBAJ}}</ref>

JODDB was also created for the supply of defense and commercial equipment optimized for [[Middle East]] requirements. It is an independent agency within the Jordanian Armed Forces tasked with operating according to best business practices and is financed both through the defense budget and by technology, products and services sales incomes. Headquartered in central [[Amman]], JODDB is organized into three divisions: the Engineering Group, the Manufacturing Group, and the Programs group.

==JODDB Investment Group==
Launched on 1 January 2010, the [[JODDB Investment Group]] has been established to act as the commercial arm for the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (JODDB). The JODDB Investment Group aims at establishing new businesses in the Defense, security and Automotive industries along with all services that would complement these industries.

==Industrial Gate Free Zone==
In October 2009, [[King Abdullah II]] inaugurated the [[JODDB Industrial Park]] (KADDB IP), which is the first comprehensive free zone in the [[Middle East]], specialized in the defense industry and the manufacturing of vehicles. KADDB IP is a public limited liability company owned completely by the Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB). It was established in 2006 in accordance with the Free Zones Law to upgrade Jordan's industrial base, attract investments, and encourage the development of interactive industries for manufacturing vehicles. It is located on 3,800 dunams (1 [[dunam]] = 1,000 square meters) of land at Khalidiyah in the [[Mafraq Governorate]], 50&nbsp;km from Amman and 24&nbsp;km from [[Zarqa]], on the cross roads linking Jordan to [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iraq]], and [[Syria]], which facilitates the transportation of KADDB IP products to all countries in the region.<ref>[http://www.kaddb-ipark.com/ KADDB Industrial Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207173422/http://kaddb-ipark.com/ |date=2011-02-07 }}. Kaddb-ipark.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Special Operations Forces Exhibition]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{portal|Jordan}}
* {{Official website|http://www.kaddb.com/en-us}}

{{Military of Jordan}}

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