Department of Defence (1942 - )

 1920 - 1976 Air Board
       1942 - Department of Defence

Participates in

• CRC for Micro Technology (1999 - )

• Department of Defence Scientific Laboratory, Commonwealth of Australia
• Royal Australian Navy (c. 1910 - )
• Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) (1921 - )
• Munitions Supply Board, Commonwealth of Australia (1921 - 1939)
• Army Invention Board (1932? - 1940?)
• Medical Equipment Control Committee (MECC), Commonwealth of Australia (1940 - 1947)
• Department of Munitions, Commonwealth of Australia (1940 - 1948)
• Long Range Weapons Establishment, Department of Defence (1947 - 1955)
• Army Design Establishment (1959 - 1974)
• Army Tropical Trials Establishment (1967 - 1977)
• Royal Australian Navy Research Laboratory (RANRL), Commonwealth of Australia (1969 - 1984)
• Engineering Design Establishment (1974 - 1977) [1974 - 1977]
• Engineering Development Establishment (EDE) (1977 - 1994) [1977 - 1994]
• Army Technology and Engineering Agency (1994 - 1998) [1994 - 1998]
• Army Engineering Agency (1998 - ) [1998 - ]

• Governor-General, Commonwealth of Australia (1900 - )

• Commonwealth Defence Science Organisation
• Directorate of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, The Australian Army
• Aircraft Construction Branch, Department of Supply and Development
• Optics Section, Munitions Supply Laboratories (MSL)
• Directorate of Machine Tools and Gauges, Department of Munitions (1940 - 1946)
• Directorate of Meteorological Services (D.Met.S.), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) (1941 - 1946)
• Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science (CACDS) (c. 1946 - )
• Defence Research Laboratories, Commonwealth of Australia (1948 - 1953)
• Australian Defence Scientific Service (ADSS), Department of Supply and Development (1949 - 1974)
• Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Department of Supply and Development (1949 - 1994)
• Defence Standards Laboratories, Commonwealth of Australia (1953 - 1974)
• Armed Forces Food Science Establishment (AFFSE), Commonwealth Defence Science Organisation (1971 - 1994)
• Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Commonwealth of Australia (1974 - )
• Materials Research Laboratories, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (1974 - 1994)
• Trials Resources Laboratory, Defence Research Centre Salisbury (1978 - 1981)
• Defence Research Centre Salisbury, Commonwealth of Australia (1978 - 1987)
• Advanced Engineering Laboratory, Defence Research Centre Salisbury (1978 - 1987)
• Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Research Centre Salisbury (1978 - 1987)
• Weapons Systems Research Laboratory, Defence Research Centre Salisbury (1978 - 1991)
• Surveillance Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (1987 - 1994)
• Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (1987 - 1994)
• Electronics and Surveillance Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (1994 - )
• Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (1994 - )

• 'Primary description of agency CA 5200; Weapons Research Laboratory, Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 18 November 1986', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+5200. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2614; Army Design Establishment, Maribyrnong, Registration of enity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2614. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2552; Defence Research/ (by 1956) Defence Standards Laboratories, Alexandria, New South Wales', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2552. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 3040; Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+3040. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 46: Department of Defence [III], Central Office. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+46. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 5199; Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 18 November 1986', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+5199. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 5501; Advanced Engineering Laboratory, Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 18 November 1986', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+5501. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6154; Defence Research Centre [Scottsdale, Tasmania], Registration of entity: 16 December 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+6154. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6731; RAAF Headquarters Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU), Registration of entity: 16 December 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+6731. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2613; Army Engineering Agency. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, Aational Archives of Australia, 2001, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2613. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6756; Surveillance Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury [South Australia]. Registration of entity: 13 January 1988.', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+6756. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6758; Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury [South Australia]. Registration of entity: 15 January 1988.', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+6758. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2798; Joint Tropical Trials Research Establishment/ (from 1988) Department of Defence [III], Materials Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Queensland. Registration of entity: 29 November 1978', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2798. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2556; Defence Standards Laboratories [Maribyrnong, Victoria]. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2556. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2555; Defence Research and Industrial Laboratories (also known as Defence Research Laboratories, [Maribyrnong, Victoria]). Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2555. [ Details ]
• 'Primary description of agency CA 4389; (from 1987) Maritime Systems Division/ (by Feb 1988) Defence Science and Technology Organisation/ (by Aug 1988) DSTO Sydney, Underwater Weapons and Countermeasure Systems Division/ (from 1992) DSTO Sydney, Marine Operations Division. Registration of entity: 24 December 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+4389. [ Details ]
• Cornish, A.; Stout, R.; Swan, K.; Glendinning, C., 'Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929-1946: History of Major Meteorological Installations in Australia From 1945-1981: Four Years in the RAAF Meteorological Service: the Bureau of Meteorology in Papua and New Guinea in the 1950s', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0490.html. [ Details ]
• Gibbs, W. J., 'A Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0362.html. [ Details ]
• Haldane, T., 'War History of the Australian Meteorological Service in the Royal Australian Air Force April 1941 to July 1946', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0621.html. [ Details ]
• Hannay, K., 'Some Recollections of Service in the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and RAAF Meteorological Service: Mascot and Rose Bay (1938 to 1940): Sojourn in the Far East (1942)', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0339.html. [ Details ]
• Joyce, J., 'The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0203.html. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A000376. [ Details ]