Flagship national aerospace cluster of Pakistan at Kamra along with three major regional techno parks at Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi and one small city level IT Park at Kharian have been accomplished within 2 ½ years of unimaginable short period of time.
National Aerospace Cluster of Pakistan PAF NASTP Kamra
The flagship National Aerospace Cluster of Pakistan at Kamra comprises Aerospace Design & Innovation Center (ADIC) which is one of the largest aerospace design center in the region. ADIC will be the strategic enabler of national fighter program called PFX that has been very closely supervised by the CAS in last two years to ensure pragmatic plan is formulated. Four buildings with sufficient space for more than 50 small to medium size design R&D companies have been added to accommodate private sector companies. Complete with residential campus and 2 MW Solar Park, collocated with the National Aerospace City Kamra (NACK), first ever Aviation and Aerospace Campus of the Air University, PAC, PAF Base Minhas, PAF Flight Test Center, PAF NASTP Kamra is poised to grow as one of the largest aerospace clusters in the region. PAF NASTP Kamra is located at the gateway to CPEC and 45 minutes’ drive from the Islamabad Int’l Airport, making it ideally suited for the connectivity across the country as well as with China and Middle Eastern countries.
PAF NASTP Alpha Rawalpindi
PAF NASTP Alpha has three main campuses Aerospace Campus has seven major Aerospace Technology Divisions including Aircraft Systems (Manned, Unmanned, Loitering Munition, Micro Jet Engines), Space Systems (Micro and Nano Sats), Sensors (GBES, AESA, GPSAR), EW Systems (RWR, Anti-Drone Systems), Visions Systems (C2 Systems & Simulators), Advanced Systems (Robotics and EOD Systems), and ACAST & Avionics (Software Defined Radio, Link 17). Center for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS) is the resident Think Tank Instt of PAF NASTP Alpha for Policy Formulation and Advocacy. Center for Artificial Intelligence & Computing (CENTAIC) is also part of Aerospace Campus.
Cyber, IT & AI Campus has four technology divisions including Cyber & Info Assurance (Cyber R&D, CTI, Cyber Range), IT & Computing (HPC, Data Center, NOC, CSOC, Cloud Computing & ICT), Software Dev (PALMS, CBTs, ERP) and AI & Big Data Analytics (DSTs, Object Detection). National Center for Cyber Security (NCCS) is also part of thus Campus.
Private Sector Campus has PAF NASTP Corporate HQs, Training Division (EASA B1B2 Training Instt called NIVT), Certification Division (CCTL for electronics and avionics certification, PACA for aerospace systems air worthiness certification), Incubation Division (NICAT with 50 Cohorts & Siber Koza with 25 Cohorts), Co-working Spaces (Daftar Khwan), more than 80 private aerospace & IT companies and Int’l Enclave with 25 Companies.
PAF NASTP Delta Lahore
PAF NASTP Delta has contracted a number of companies which have started their operations. Signature IT Institute called PAF NASTP Instt of IT (NIIT) is the degree awarding affiliated college of AU to educate, train and graduate industry ready HR. Center for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS) is the resident Think Tank Instt of PAF NASTP Alpha for Policy Formulation and Advocacy. PAF NASTP Delta is predominantly IT Hub of PAF NASTP. PITB and PAF NASTP have partnered to bring Incubation and Co-working in PAF NASTP Delta whereas PAF NASTP and MoIT have partnered to establish National Center for Animation & Gaming in PAF NASTP Delta.
PAF NASTP Silicon Karachi
PAF NASTP Silicon has contracted more than a number of companies which have started their operations. Silicon has established joint training center in partnership with Ashrei Tech Academy and co-working spaces with the private brand the Hives. PAF NASTP Silicon is being extended to the PAF Museum side as well to add more spaces for the IT & Aerospace Companies. Current addition comprises four buildings with space for more than 50 small to medium size companies. Silicon is also home to one of the most significant Technology Divisions of PAF NASTP i.e. Simulator AR&VR.
PAF NASTP Kharian
PAF NASTP Kharian is an IT Park along with the degree awarding affiliated Campus of the Air University. Current capacity has space for more than 25 small to medium size companies. PAF NASTP have also partnered with PITB to bring Incubation and Co-working to Kharian IT Park.
PAF NASTP Partnership with STZA
Strategic partnership with STZA has been accomplished at unprecedented pace. Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi techno parks have been declared STZs and PAF NASTP has signed the Zone Developer License Agreement with STZA as the first ever competent authority to achieve this in country.
