The Pilot’s force measurement glove, invented by Dr Garth Morgan, William Menadue and Robert Clarke in the early 1980s, was a world-first for Australian engineers and an invention that revolutionised in-flight testing procedures.
Our innovations
The Black Box Flight Recorder, designed by Dr Dave Warren
For more than 100 years, DSTG and its predecessor organisations have been dedicated to the delivery of thorough, ground-breaking and innovative science.
We have a long history of innovation in defence science, such as the development of the Jindalee Operational Radar Network, the Nulka ship missile decoy, the Barra Sonobuoy, the Australian Minesweeping System, the Laser Airborne Depth Sounder and composite bonded aircraft repair techniques, among others. Our scientists continue to find novel and innovative solutions to Defence's technology challenges.
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Innovations
PIPRS was a concept developed by Defence scientists in Sydney during the 1980s to determine the range of active acoustic transmissions used in anti-submarine warfare to locate possible targets.
Defence scientists developed SeaMark, a marine dye marker, as a safe, effective and longer-lasting alternative to flares and smoke signals for search and rescue at sea.
Defence scientist Dr Mark Anderson was the principal inventor of Shapes Vector, a prototype system developed in 1996 to detect intrusions into computer networks.
Starlight is a unique, world-first system that allows users of secure computers to access insecure networks, such as the Internet, without compromising their own security.
Thermoelasticity is the study of stresses generated by different loads at different temperatures.
Since 1980, Defence scientists have been involved in developing advanced elastomer technology for heavy armoured vehicle components, such as track pads, bushes, roadwheel treads, roadwheel pads and return idlers.
DSTG leads the world in the use of adhesively bonded fibre composites to repair aircraft structures and arrest stress corrosion cracking.
LADS is a unique system of laser airborne depth sounding — a self-contained, transportable bathymetric survey system that uses a pulsed laser mounted in a fixed-wing aircraft.
Developed in the early 1970s, Mulloka was an advanced medium-range active sonar system designed to provide information on submarine targets.
