The Joint Direct Attack Munition – Extended Range (JDAM-ER) is a significant success story for DST.
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
Defence scientists are investigating methods to harvest energy from vehicle vibrations to convert into electricity and power up diagnostic sensors and devices.
Cyber attacks on government and private organisations have skyrocketed. DST Group has developed the Digital Video Guard for protection.
DST Group has developed a solution to a problem facing troops reliant on UHF radio set communications.
DST Group is an international trailblazer in the use of acoustic imaging on submarines.
The Advanced Tactical - MUlti-band Research Laser INfrared (AT-MURLIN) forms a core part of a technology being developed to protect Defence aircraft against infrared-guided missile attack, which it does by jamming the guidance system of such missiles with pulses of infrared laser light.
Named after the wading bird, the Cormorant Lift Bag was designed to recover explosive mines remotely and safely from the sea.
In 2002, DSTO (now DST Group), designed and built a military imaging laser radar, known as LADAR, as a concept demonstrator for battlefield surveillance.
The Theatre Broadcast System (TBS) was one of the first ‘Compact Receive Suites’ designed and developed at DST Group.
In 1983, DSTO (now DST Group) began development of the Aeromed Retrieval Unit, a medical unit designed for transporting premature and sick babies from regional areas to hospital by air.
