Annual Review 2015-16 1 \ DST GROUP ANNUAL REVIEW 2015-16 Annual Review 2015-16 Melissa Laws uses a variety of techniques to synthesise, purify and characterise compounds used in chemical and biological defence research. SECTION TEXT \ 2 3 \ DST GROUP ANNUAL REVIEW 2015-16 Abbreviatiations Contents and Acronyms ABCANZ Australia Britain Canada New Zealand HF High Frequency 4 Abbreviations and acronyms ADF Australian Defence Force ICT Information and Communications Technology 6 Overview from the Chief Defence Scientist ASRAAM Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile IED Improvised Explosive Device 8 Major highlights CAD Chief Aerospace Division IM&T Information Management and Technology 12 Section 1: Our Organisation CASG Capability Acquisition and Sustainment ISR Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group 14 About us and our purpose JORN Jindalee Operational Radar Network CEWD Chief Cyber & Electronic Warfare Division 15 Our roles JSF Joint Strike Fighter CJOAD Chief Joint and Operations Analysis Division 16 DST Leadership Team 2015-16 JTF Joint Task Force 17 Vision, purpose, people and values CLD Chief Land Division LHD Landing Helicopter Dock 18 Implementation of the Strategic Plan CMD Chief Maritime Division MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging CNSID Chief National Security & ISR Division MSTC Major Science and Technology Capability 32 Section 2: Delivering capability for Defence and national security CRSD Chief Research Services Division NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization 34 Supporting Australian Defence Force operations CSPED Chief Science Partnerships & Engagement RAN Royal Australian Navy 40 Sustaining and enhancing existing Defence capability Division NRL Naval Research Laboratory 52 Ensuring Defence is a smart buyer CSSPD Chief Science Strategy & Program Division OSC Operations Support Centre 58 Future-proofing Defence CWCSD Chief Weapons & Combat Systems Division PAA Project Analysis and Advice 68 Enhancing national security CBD Chemical and Biological Defence 72 Supporting the civilian sector R&D Research and Development CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological and RAAF Royal Australian Air Force Nuclear 74 Section 3: Partnerships and Outreach RF Radio Frequency CBRNfx Chemical, Biological, Radiological & 76 Enhancing outcomes through collaboration and engagement Nuclear Effects RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology CDS Chief Defence Scientist SAGE Science in Australia Gender Equity 88 Section 4: Investing in our people, our assets, our success CIED Counter Improvised Explosive Device S&T Science and Technology 90 Valuing our people CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial SCT Specialised Coatings Technology 100 Investing in organisational enablers Research Organisation SMEs Small and Medium Enterprises CTD Capability and Technology Demonstrator SRI Strategic Research Initiative 102 Section 5: Emerging futures Defence The Defence Organisation, including the Department of Defence and the Australian STC Science and Technology Capability Defence Force STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and 106 Section 6: Appendices DSI Defence Science Institute Mathematics 108 Appendix A: Public release science and technology reports STEMM Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics 112 Appendix B: Papers delivered or published externally Dstl Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and Medicine (UK) 135 Appendix C: Patents granted TPO Technology Partnerships Office DST Group Defence Science and Technology Group TTCP The Technical Cooperation Program EO Electro-Optical 136 Doing business with DST Group: Contacts UAV Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle First published in 2016 by Front cover Defence Science and Technology Group Long Nguyen and Tania Holmes using computer simulation Department of Defence to study new armour materials. David Warren Building 24 Scherger Drive Back cover Canberra Airport, ACT 2609 Garland Hu and Natalie Olsen working on the development of the Buccaneer CubeSat. This mission is being progressed in partnership with UNSW Canberra and will launch in 2017. ABBREVIATIATIONS AND ACRONYMS \ 4 5 \ DST GROUP ANNUAL REVIEW 2015-16 During the year, DST Group continued to externally with defence primes. These activities have resulted in benchmark its Major Science and Technology Capabilities. greater industry collaboration and increased take-up of our Overview from the Chief Nearly half these capabilities have now been externally technologies for further development or commercialisation. reviewed and 37 groups/areas to date have been rated Defence Scientist as meeting world benchmark standards. These results The Defence White Paper placed a high priority on underline a true commitment by DST Group staff to international engagement as a means of positioning continuous improvement in achieving world-class Australia to protect its security and prosperity based on scientific excellence. regional stability and a rules-based global order. In this respect DST Group strengthened its growing science and Science excellence must be accompanied with a focus technology relationships with Singapore, Japan and South 2015-16 was another momentous year for defence science on delivering outcomes for Defence. Our science teams Korea while forging new links with Indonesia and India. The and technology. have successfully re-engaged with our Defence clients and relationship with our traditional 5-eyes allies - USA, UK, partners. We measure our engagement results through Canada and New Zealand – continued to play a strong part We successfully addressed the five recommendations client surveys. Our survey results have continued to improve in addressing shared capability challenges through closer from the First Principles Review that applied to DST and this is reflected in our client satisfaction with 92% of cooperation in joint research activities that are focused on Group. These included articulating the value we deliver Defence respondents being satisfied with our performance. outcomes. Many of these activities are carried out under to Defence, disbanding the DSTO Advisory Board, We will continue to seek to deliver better results for our The Technical Cooperation Program which held the 51st strengthening partnerships with industry and academia, Defence clients. Meeting of its Principals in Sydney this year. Australia is realigning research priorities with future force requirements taking a leading role in research activities related to cyber, and rationalising our top leadership structure. These Performance matters most when scientists are delivering autonomous systems and contested urban environments, recommendations have now been actioned and completed. capability solutions to the Australian Defence Force. Among all deemed strategic challenges by the Principals of The the practical solutions provided during the year was the Technical Cooperation Program. The Australian National Audit Office review of research extension of the carriage life of the rocket motors in the activities was also completed during the year, making Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile allowing the We made good progress during the year in improving only one recommendation to improve our Management F/A-18 aircraft to continue operations in the Middle East, diversity, career development for staff and supporting Information System. This recommendation has also resolving issues with the integration of the missile warning activities for the advancement of science, technology, been actioned. system in the ADF’s new helicopters, exploring novel fuel engineering and mathematics. We sponsored 51 and energy technologies to reduce the weight carried by scholarships, cadetships and research placements while our The release of the Defence White Paper in March 2016 soldiers, developing a passive radar system for situational indigenous intake now represents one per cent of the total marked a new era for the future advancement of Defence awareness without being detected, and implementing workforce in DST Group. During the year, we also joined capability. The White Paper explicitly recognised the electronic countermeasures against improvised explosive the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) program of critical role of science and technology in delivering devices (IED). the Athena Scientific Women’s Academic Network as part of the ADF’s capability edge. As a result, the government our commitment to improving our practices in recruitment, committed $1.9 billion in funding for science and innovation The Redwing suite of counter-IED products, developed retention and promotion of women. activities, including $730 million for a Next Generation by DST Group in collaboration with industry and the Technologies Fund to be managed by DST Group over the Australian Military Sales Office, was recognised for its We concluded the 2015-16 year by meeting Defence next ten years. This was part of a sweeping reform to bring inventiveness with a Public Sector innovation award from expectations, thanks to the contributions of all our staff and We concluded the the fragmented Defence innovation programs into a unified the Institute of Public Administration Australia. More than research partners. While scientific and technical achievement innovation ecosystem. 100,000 of the light-weight, low-cost devices have been is the centrepiece of our business, this work could not be supplied to Afghanistan. The Redwing force protection accomplished without our wonderful support staff. With the 2015-16 year by The $730 million Next Generation Technologies Fund systems illustrate DST Group’s