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Dr Alex Zelinsky
Chief Defence Scientist

" THE DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

GROUP IS FOCUSING ITS EFFORTS TOWARDS

FUTURE DEFENCE CAPABILITY."

Science and Technology plays an important national
role in ensuring Australia’s Defence Force maintains
a capability edge in the face of a changing global
DEVELOPING GAME- The Defence Science and Technology Group (DST) is
environment.

focusing its efforts towards future Defence capability.
It is doing this in two ways. Firstly, through an
increased emphasis on partnerships with industry and
CHANGING DEFENCE academia, and increasing collaboration with national and
international defence science organisations. Secondly,
through innovation - by exploiting existing capabilities, and
developing new technologies and operating concepts.
DST leads the new Next Generation Technologies Fund
program which seeks to deliver future game-changing
CAPABILITIES defence capabilities in collaboration with industry and
academia. The program will harness the nation’s science
and technology expertise to ensure the Australian Defence
Force is agile, adaptive and truly integrated to meet future
operational needs.
DST is releasing a series of strategy documents on
shaping defence science and technology for the Maritime,
Land, Aerospace, Intelligence and Joint domains. These
strategies capture the science and technology support for
meeting the ADF missions of the future.

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