Welcome to DST - Defence Science and Technology

Welcome to DST

Defence Science and Technology is part of Australia's Department of Defence. It is the second largest public-funded R&D organisation in Australia.

View our role

View our value proposition

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
FOR DEFENCE 2020-2030

MISSION-DRIVEN
RESEARCH FOR
HIGH IMPACT

GET INVOLVED

News

View all articles

Expanding and exploiting our understanding of the ocean

Defence scientists Dr Mike Greening and Holly McNabb are at the heart of DST's support to RAN environmental forecasting.

Jettisoning Navy’s maritime hitchhikers

Blistering barnacles, these are some novel anti-fouling solutions.

Shining a light on our maritime science at PACIFIC 2019

Above, on the surface and in the depths of the ocean - we're there.

Building the national medical countermeasures program

Dr Felicia Pradera, DST's program manager for medical countermeasures development, is working to grow the national medical countermeasures (MCM) program.

A Joint Effort: Elevator Pitch

The Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) and Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) are anticipating the launch of 'A Joint Effort' Stage 2 competition later this year.

Cavitation and correlation down under

DST will be showcasing its support of Australian Defence's maritime activities at the PACIFIC 2019 international maritime exposition.

Shedding new light in many directions

Professor Nigel Spooner is digging deep for science.

Progress with urban autonomous vehicle flight

DST robotics specialist Ricardo Cannizzaro is using a unique indoor flight lab to integrate and test new algorithms, hardware and sensors on small uninhabited aircraft systems (UAS).