Jordan Design and Development Bureau

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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 = {{langx|ar|المركز الأردني للتصميم والتطوير}}

| former_name = King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau
King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau

| type = State owned company

| industry = 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. Gen. Mohmmad Suleiman Farghal (CEO){{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}}

| products = Military equipment

| owner = Jordanian Armed Forces

| website = {{URL|https://www.joddb.com/}}

}}

The Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB) is a Jordanian 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).{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}

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.