Stochastic cooling is the key element for the NICA
accelerator facility that is presently under development at
JINR, Russia. Beam cooling will work with the highintensity bunched beams in the 3-4.5 GeV energy range;
all three degrees of freedom will be treated simultaneously.
The preparatory experimental work on stochastic cooling
is carried out at accelerator Nuclotron (JINR, Dubna) since
2010. During this work hardware solutions and automation
techniques for system adjustment have been worked out
and tested. Based on the gained experience the overall
design of the NICA stochastic cooling system was also
developed. The report presents the conceptual design of the
NICA stochastic cooling system and overviews the results
of cooling experiments at Nuclotron and the developed
adjustment automation techniques.