The Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group is creating teams of small autonomous aircraft, or drones, for missions in contested urban environments.

DST has developed LASAGNE, the Layered Approach to Service Architectures for a Global Networked Environment, an interoperable open architecture that enables future Combat and Mission Systems to become highly concurrent and networked computing environments.

The Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group is conducting research into advanced Directed Infra-Red Counter-Measures (DIRCM) concepts to protect aircraft from increasingly sophisticated infra-red (IR) guided missiles.

DST's Synthetic Human-in-the-loop Operations Research Environment (SHORE) operates as both an exploratory and validation tool within an overarching operations analysis process that includes constructive simulations.

The Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group is the lead Australian research agency undertaking advanced research into hypersonic technologies to enable sustained high-speed flight in the atmosphere.

To assist the ADF shape its future aerospace capability, the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group has, and continues to develop, a range of analysis capabilities, including simulation, that can model aircraft performance across different platform types and operations.

The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter will deliver to Australia the world’s most advanced and capable multi-role fighter; a fifth-generation aircraft that offers an unparalleled mix of situational awareness, stealth and mission capabilities.

Under a project known as WASABI (Wide Area Surveillance Activity Based Intelligence), DST Group is leveraging extensive experience with motion imagery to research wide area surveillance capabilities which contain vast amounts of unstructured information.