Our Partners

Our partners include New Zealand government agencies, industry, academia, the government science and innovation sector, and international partners.

Given New Zealand’s small population size, maintaining high quality defence science skills requires a special focus on global networking, information sharing and collaboration. Through this we can draw on the expertise of other specialists in the field, we are more cost-effective, avoid duplicating effort, and deliver greater value to the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF).

We have been collaborating with defence science partners from other nation primarily through Five Eyes S&T programme. This type of international engagement is critical for conducting world class research and enables New Zealand (through DST) to access overseas capabilities that would not otherwise be available to the NZDF. 

Some of our key partners include:

Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Ministry of Primary Industries

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Oceanum

Callaghan Innovation

Marshall Day Acoustics

ElementX

University of Auckland

Auckland University of Technology

University of Canterbury Wireless Research Centre

Victoria University of Wellington