Knowledge Seeking, Creation and Sharing
Our knowledge base is an asset we want to develop and exploit to our advantage. We will seek, create, share and build upon our know-how so that collectively, we can learn and grow as an organisation.

Knowledge sharing is an integral part of a learning organisation that DSO strives to be. We believe that if we want to become an organisation of distinction, we must share our knowledge and learning, as well as leverage and build upon each other's expertise. In addition to inculcating this core value in our staff through various internal communication platforms, we operationalise it as part of our work process.

Technical courses and seminars are conducted regularly for our staff so that they can better understand the key systems and enabling technologies critical to DSO’s R&D activities and stay abreast of the technological advancements in these areas. Furthermore, our staff can also tap on a rich knowledge bank where DSO’s ideas and innovation are shared among our staff.

INtegrity
We uphold the highest standards of professionalism, fairness and impartiality in our work, without compromising integrity, acceptable standards of probity or safety. We have the courage of our convictions to stand up for what is right, say what we mean and deliver what we promise.

As a trusted partner to our customers, we safeguard all proprietary information and carry out our duties with great integrity. In addition, upholding the intellectual property rights of our collaboration partners is also of paramount concern for DSO.

Excellence
We take pride in our work carried out according to the highest standards of professionalism. Excellence is the hallmark of our people, process, products and services.

Embedded in this value are qualities such as personal mastery, quality, pride and commitment in one's work. DSO’s sterling record of winning awards in every Defence Technology Prize since the award’s inception in 1989, attests to our valuable contributions to the Ministry and the Singapore Armed Forces.

Click here to find out more about our winners for the Defence Technology Prize.

Teamwork
We harness the full potential of our staff and exploit synergies by working together as a team with a shared vision and by working towards a common goal to ensure collective learning, economy of effort and greater job satisfaction.

At DSO, R&D is undertaken through project teams and hence a culture of teamwork is critical to the overall performance of DSO as an organisation. To give DSO what we need to stake our claim as a premier R&D organisation, we strive to efficiently and effectively harness our collective energy and align our efforts so that DSO remains vibrant, dynamic and innovative.

Innovativeness
We strive to be resourceful, creative and innovative in our work to create additional value for our customers.

DSO’s recipe for growing our intellectual property comprises three key ingredients – to seed ideas, to provide financial and organisational support for these ideas to germinate into original and novel innovations, and to recognise efforts for innovation.

The DSO InnoFair, for instance, is an internal exhibition held biennially to showcase innovative projects from the various research groups in DSO. As a forum for exchange, the event aims to seed novel ideas, explore new concepts and encourage greater collaboration among our fellow scientists and engineers. We also organise technology exhibitions to foster closer ties with our partners.

Customer Focus
We seek to understand the concerns, needs and requirements of our customers, add value to them, strive to exceed their expectations, and so delight them.

At DSO, our customers are our top priority. As a key member of Singapore’s defence ecosystem, we play a key role in supporting the SAF in its transformation efforts. Open communication channels in the form of dialogue sessions, forums, visits and seminars, are established to help our researchers better understand our customers’ operational requirements. Participation in SAF exercises and staff attachments further reinforces our understanding of the SAF’s needs.