Our Activities

Over the past decade DMTC has sought through its Air Program to address a range of key challenges facing the Australian defence industry in the manufacture and sustainment of aircraft components and systems. In this way, DMTC and its partners are enabling the Royal Australian...Read more

The Australian Army needs to not just be ready now but also future ready. DMTC is a valued partner in enhancing Defence capabilities through technology enhancements, underpinning supply chain improvements and broader industrial capability outcomes. In all of these activities the Defence customer and the...Read more

A focus on advancing new technologies and building Australian industry capacity is needed if the goals of the Naval Shipbuilding Plan, released by the Australian Government in 2017, are to be fully realised. The continuation of DMTC’s decade of work on technologies relevant to Naval...Read more

Medical Countermeasures (or MCM) is one of DMTC’s newest programs and builds on extensive research and preparatory work undertaken by government, industry and research agencies. Utilising funding from CSIRO and from DST Group through its Next Generation Technologies Fund, DMTC’s leadership of the program involves...Read more

The NHSRA is a detailed examination of Australia’s capability and capacity for research, development, manufacture, supply chain and distribution of priority products and solutions to contribute to sovereign resilience and national health security. Multiple government agency stakeholders were consulted in the development of this assessment,...Read more

DMTC is harnessing expertise and deploying resources to play its role in contributing to the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia’s response is of vital importance not only for our own citizens but also in likely humanitarian aid assistance to countries in our region....Read more

DMTC’s Industry Capability Development Program aims to create a network of ‘Defence-ready’ companies with benchmarked, globally competitive capabilities. It has a strong focus on engaging SMEs in its research and development activities and equipping them to participate in prime contractors’ supply chains. Participants gain exposure...Read more

A strong focus of DMTC’s work for our Defence customer over the decade has been to enhance platform-independent technologies and underpinning supply chains. DMTC’s Enabling Technologies Program provides scientific and technological expertise in areas where a technology has the potential to be applied across one...Read more

Australia’s push to refresh and broaden the capabilities of its fledgling space industry requires policy leadership from Government, expert contributions from the research sector and a greater industrial footprint, with a particular focus on Australian SMEs and start-up companies. DMTC’s High Altitude Sensor Systems (HASS)...Read more