We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Suppliers of science and technology research can sign up to R-Cloud to access opportunities from across the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Scratch the surface and experience innovation first-hand at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
Guidance on the many ways for suppliers to work with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
How to submit a proposal to the Defence and Security Accelerator
Development of a standard approach for AI and autonomy in networked multi-sensor systems in security and defence.
A suite of open standards and specifications enabling modularity and interoperability in C5ISR and EW systems.
This guidance explains our competition process and how your proposal is assessed.
Guidance for suppliers of science and technology research who sign up to R-Cloud and R-Cloud+ to access opportunities from across the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Earn, learn and grow new skills as an apprentice at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
View highlights of some of our most recently published research on this page. You can also download a complete list of our published research.
How suppliers can participate in our frameworks and how customers can use Dstl frameworks to procure science and technology (S&T) research.
AI is one of the fastest-moving areas of technological advancement in government defence, bringing the capability to counter threats and create opportunities.
Guidance for practitioners involved in the recovery of evidential fingermarks.
Procedure and supporting guidance to help police forces prepare their own policies for retrieving native video and audio from CCTV systems.
Guide to the capture, retrieval, storage or use of evidential digital images, and associated audio and metadata.
Content designed to support organisations already working, or aiming to work, across civil and defence space with relevant information about a range of topics.
This guidance sets out the process for determining whether governance approval and ethics review is required for research undertaken, funded or sponsored by MOD.
A short guide to artificial intelligence (AI), data science and machine learning, explaining the terminology and helping you use and apply the latest advances.
An introduction to how defence might lessen our contributions to and adapt to climate change.
Submit your research to Athena; Dstl's central repository of MOD-sponsored scientific and technical research reports.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).