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Collaboration

DSTO provides access to facilities, and advice and services to industry on a commercial basis. This can be useful in helping industry to support Defence, particularly when companies’ in-house R&D and test capabilities are limited, or complementary to those of DSTO.

DSTO's Transonic Wind Tunnel

• Note that DSTO does not seek to compete with industry
• Any provision of facilities or services must fit within Defence and DSTO industry interaction policy guidelines

Contract R&D

DSTO undertakes research on behalf of industry where DSTO’s capabilities are unique

Consultancies

Utilising vast background knowledge / IP generated over several decades

DSTO Research Facilities

DSTO has a well-defined procedure for providing access to Defence science and technology facilities to external agencies and bodies on a "fee for service" basis.

DSTO research facilities include:

• Anechoic Chamber
• Auditory Laboratory
• Electro-Magnetic Capability Testing
• Explosives Ordnance Experimental Facility
• High Speed Cine and Video
• Modelling, FEA, SEA
• Natural and Artificial Environmental Exposure
• Open Jet Aerodynamic Test Facility
• Rocket Motor Test Facility
• Signature Management Test Facility
• Simulated Hostile Environments (Salt, Fog, Humidity)
• Simulation
• Small Engine Testing Facility
• Sonar Test Tanks
• Static and Fatigue Testing
• Water Tunnel
• Wind Tunnel
• Anechoic Chamber for Radar Cross-Section and Antenna Measurements
• Microwave Radar Experimental Facility
• Hornet Radar Experimental Facility
• AMES Radar Signal Generator