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The Application of Work Domain Analysis to Defining Australia’s Air Combat Capability

This report presents a comprehensive work domain analysis—or structural description—of Australia’s Air Combat Capability, defined across multiple levels of abstraction and decomposition, and independent of specific platforms.

DSTO Annual Review 2013-14

The DSTO Annual Review 2013-14 showcases select examples of science and technology delivering capability outcomes for Defence and national security.

Cognitive Work Analysis Beyond Human Factors and Engineering: Application to Military Doctrine and Strategy Development

This paper extends the application of cognitive work analysis (CWA) beyond the fields of human factors and engineering by demonstrating its use for military doctrine and strategy development.

Work domain analysis: Concepts, guidelines, and cases

A comprehensive treatment of work domain analysis, this book covers fundamental topics such as abstraction, decomposition, and structural means-ends and part-whole relations—the basic characteristics of a work domain model.

Forward 2035: DSTO Foresight Study

Forward 2035 represents the findings of a foresight study examining emerging trends in the wider socio-economic and strategic global factors that shape the long-term future and impact science and technology developments.

Nulka: A compelling story

Science and technology have many roles in supporting defence capability but none is more important than researching novel ideas and initiating projects that meet critical national security requirements.

Anticipating tomorrow's Defence needs: A century of Australian Defence science

This book celebrates 100 years of Defence science in Australia, beginning with the role of Cecil Napier Hake in investigating the feasibility of establishing a cordite factory in this country.

Diggerworks: Driving innovation and effectiveness in the defence sector

This publication brings out many insights that have underpinned the accelerated delivery and integration of a soldier system that is being continually adapted to the evolving needs of the soldier.

Logic Assumptions and Risks Framework Applied to Defence Campaign Planning and Evaluation

This paper describes the Logic, Assumptions and Risks Framework (LARF) developed by DSTO to establish a mechanism to improve the analysis, transparency and decision paths that underpin planning and evaluation.

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