Centre for
Defence Engineering
Research and Training

Our mission within the Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training (CDERT) is to bring our research strengths to bear, to develop world-leading academic knowledge and capability in key disciplines that make up defence engineering and technology.

Working together with our partners in the defence industry, both in Australia and in allied nations, CDERT is focused on the provision of research, training and consultancy excellence. Our research objective is to work with our partners to find innovative practical solutions to real-world defence problems. Our training programs are designed to meet the rapidly growing demand from our partners, to build a highly-skilled workforce supporting the uptake of advanced technologies driving industrial transformation.

Our strong collaboration with the defence industry, coupled with our research strengths in key disciplines and our unique research facilities, support our capability in conducting world-class research and in achieving impact.

The Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training encompasses a range of complementary research streams

Autonomous Systems

Unmanned autonomous maritime platforms are increasingly used by military, commercial and scientific organisations.

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Electromagnetic Environment

As we move to the internet of things (IoT), more and more devices will talk to each other using electromagnetic waves.

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Digital Technologies / Advanced Manufacturing

Focusing on the interrelated streams of innovation management, industry 4.0, human factors and digital transformation.

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Intelligent Systems

The application of logical and statistical reasoning, multi-agent systems and machine learning, in the development of novel intelligent and interactive systems.

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