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Dr Warren Harch is the Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Information and Weapons Systems).

Dr Warren Harch

Dr Harch is responsible for shaping and directing DSTO's information-centric programs covering:

• Intelligence and Security
• Joint Operations and Information
• Strategy and Capability Planning
• Joint Operations Division

The Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Information and Weapon Systems) supports Australia's current and future military capability and contributes to national security.

Keys areas of research under his direction include adaptive distributed systems, information assurance - robust survivable secure electronic information infrastructure, computer network defence, computer forensics, very high assurance devices, robust self organising communications networks, machine semantic understanding through symbolic languages, augmented cognition, augmentation of human decision-making, machine learning, sensing of transitory and hidden objects, advanced sensing and sensor processing, and heterogeneous sensor information fusion.

In addition, DCDS (Information and Weapon Systems) has a wider responsibility for the development of Network CentricWarfare (NCW) capabilities across the whole of DSTO.

DCDS (Information and Weapon Systems) is also DSTO's Chief Information Officer with whole of DSTO responsibilities for information management and the operation and development of DSTO's research networks and computing infrastructure.

DCDS (Information and Weapon Systems) is  responsible for the leadership and management of the following organisational elements of DSTO:

Electronic Warfare & Radar Division
Electronic Warfare & Radar Division provides scientific leadership and support to the Australian Defence Organisation on the exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum to enhance the performance of our own sensors, weapons, platforms and command systems, together with the ability to destroy the effectiveness of adversarial systems.

Weapons Systems Division
Weapons Systems Division provides scientific leadership and support covering all aspects of weapon systems - including sensors, guidance, propulsion and warheads, and their integration into combat platforms and command and control systems.

Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence Division
Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence Division provides scientific leadership and support for Defence command, intelligence, communications, and business processes, at both the operational and theatre levels of command. Support to the Australian Defence Organisation includes Information Operations with special capabilities in Information Security and Digital Forensics; Communications with special capabilities in Satellite Communications, Mobile Networks and Network Management; Intelligence Processing and Analysis with special capabilities in signals analysis, communications analysis, automated fact extraction, and speech processing. The Division has organised its work program to have a strong emphasis on support achieving the goals as outlined in the Network Centric Warfare roadmap.

Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division
Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division provides scientific leadership and support for strategic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, with a focus on the needs of the intelligence community.

Land Operations Division
Land Operations Division provides scientific leadership and support to the Land Force through structured and analytical approaches to capability development.

Science Corporate Information Services
Science Corporate Information Systems has a central role in the planning, management and support of computing services across DSTO. With responsibility for the provision of computing and communications services, its ongoing mission is "Advancing DSTO through quality Information Technology services".

DCDS (Information and Weapon Systems) is also head of DSTO's Edinburgh site.