•  Skyblade III
  Jointly developed by DSO and ST Aerospace to meet the SAF’s needs for unmanned systems, the Skyblade III UAV is designed for rapid mission deployment to support both military and civilian applications.

  Developed for fully autonomous flight operations, it delivers quick and accurate intelligence in real-time to tactical commanders in the field.

• Skyblade IV
  Another joint development by DSO and ST Aerospace, the Skyblade IV is a tactical UAV that can perform a variety of operational missions such as surveillance, reconnaissance, fire support and battle damage assessment.

• Prototype Crew-Class UGV
  To enhance the operational effectiveness of soldiers on the battlefield, DSO has developed a prototype crew-class UGV, capable of autonomously travelling at a speed of up to 25 kilometres per hour over undulating terrain.
  
   

• Autonomous Robotic System
  To meet the SAF’s needs for battlefield intelligence in urban operations, DSO has developed a prototype sensor system that allows a robot to navigate waypoints and avoid obstacles, such as walls and barriers, autonomously.
  
  With the system, the robot is able to gather initial information in a more flexible and effective manner, without risking human life in an unknown environment.
  
  Multiple robots can also be programmed to co-operate with each other, making them suitable for a wide variety of missions - from chem-bio and radiological defence, to search and rescue operations. 

• Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive (CBRE) Robots
  The world’s first ruggedised set of robots in the world capable of encompassing the entire loop of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives (CBRE) operations was unveiled last year. The development of the CBRE robots evolved from a robotics project in DSO, which was subsequently managed by the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA).
  
  The robots are capable of performing three CBRE functions - detection, solid sampling and mitigation.
  
  The detection robot, integrated with chemical, radiological and explosive (CRE) sensors, is able to detect CRE threats in an incident area. The solid sampling robot performs the collection of solid chemical and biological samples for post-mortem after a CBRE incident, and the mitigation robot is designed to perform liquid decontamination when chemical threats are present.

• Meredith AUV
  Equipped with an intelligent sensing and communications system, the Meredith AUV is well suited for the unique characteristics of Singapore’s waters, and is able to support the Navy in a variety of operations.
  
   

The ability to manage Singapore's airspace efficiently and safely to meet increasing flight demands is critical due to our limited airspace.

This innovative airspace management mechanism, developed in partnership with the US Air Force Research Laboratory, provides options for a more flexible utilisation and dynamic management of airspace.

This method deviates from the conventional method of strictly segregating airspace into lanes and rigidly enforcing the use of boundaries between these lanes.

With the increasing use of complex sensor networks in the battlefield, large volumes of data will have to be processed by military commanders, which can be affected by the constraints of the human working memory.

DSO has developed a prototype suite of advanced cognitive visualisation techniques to enhance a military commander's ability to perceive, understand and make time-critical battlefield decisions.

These visualisations use theories of human perception within their design to creatively improve a commander's ground situation assessment.

To support effective maritime surveillance, DSO and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), jointly researched the automatic detection and prediction of anomalous behaviour in maritime vessels, to assist human operators in detecting suspicious vessel behaviour in a more automated fashion.

Experts are able to identify potential threats more reliably through the aid of statistical models of maritime behaviour, automatically generated by the computer from archived data.

Data Farming is a methodology which applies high performance computing to simulations that depict different battlefield scenarios in air, land and sea. Results of possible scenarios are stored in a databank, which can help commanders make informed decisions.

To build up our data farming capabilities, DSO has been partnering the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) since 2002.

Data Farming can also be applied to other areas such as homeland security operations.

Heat stroke has been recognised as a clinical condition for centuries, but the pathway that triggers heat stroke is not well understood, and people continue to die from it each year.

DSO has proposed a new model to explain heat stroke, known as the "dual pathway model of heat stroke", which advocates that heat stress alone does not trigger heat stroke.

Such a model of heat stroke can explain reports of athletes having core temperatures of up to 42°C, with no signs of heat stroke.

This is unlike the current belief that it is triggered by heat, which is unable to explain the poor association between body temperature and the occurrence of heat stroke.

Weight increase in the soldier's field load is inevitable with the advancement of combat technology, which increases the soldier's physical fatigue and injury and reduces combat effectiveness.

Such a limitation could potentially be conquered with the use of exoskeleton systems that are compliant to the individual's lower limbs and capable of transferring a majority of the carried load to the ground.

The system can sustain its own weight and successfully transfer part of the backpack load to the ground when the person is standing or walking.

A tighter focus laser beam results in a better resolution for laser lithography and microscopy, higher cutting speed and cutting resolution for laser machining applications, as well as a high storage density for optical data storage application.

DSO has exploited non-obvious uses of polarisation physics to invent four new methods to generate such a laser beam, which offer advantages such as cheaper fabrications, a more accurate radial polarisation profile, and the possibility of mass fabrication of large aperture optics with high-speed switchability.

EMC plays a crucial role in defence systems development and platform integration by ensuring optimal performance in their intended operating Electromagnetic Environment.

DSO supports numerous projects ranging from in-house full scale development projects, DSTA acquisition projects, to system / platform upgrades.

Our latest and most sophisticated support work is ensuring EMC among all combat systems installed onboard the Republic of Singapore Navy’s Stealth Frigate, where we coordinated with the shipyard and all combat system suppliers to resolve all EMI and EMC issues.

To enhance our EMC build-up capability, we have also developed the Electromagnetic Effects Research Laboratory (EMERL) in partnership with NTU in 2007 - the first national-level test facility catering to both military and commercial electromagnetic effects testing.

With the increased threat of chemical weapons used in modern conflicts, DSO has expanded its R&D work to include a range of chem-bio defence capabilities.

One such solution that DSO has developed against chemical agents is the Scentmate - a novel, fast, effective and portal screening kit for individuals suspected of exposure to nerve agents. The technology can assist in rapid on-site screening during a chemical attack.

The technology has since progressed to a diagnostic test kit that is deployable at the public healthcare level to medical clinics and even on-site.

DSO has also developed decontamination technologies including the Demul-X - a universal, non-aggressive decontaminant that is effective against a wide range of chemical and biological agents.

DSO has once again successfully retained its "A" for the 24th Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Proficiency Test in October 2008, for the 9th consecutive time.

This enables DSO to support the work of the OPCW and the Chemical Weapons Convention alongside other elite laboratories from around the globe.

The Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) laboratory at DSO is the national single portal of entry for samples contaminated with unknown chemical and biological substances.

In the event of a threat involving unknown chemical and biological substances, DSO’s BSL3 laboratory is the national response laboratory tasked to process, identify and verify the substance used.

The single portal of entry was operationalised when DSO was engaged after the September 11 attacks to screen for anthrax.

During the SARS outbreak in 2003, DSO was a member of a clinical consortium of Singapore laboratories that helped in the fight against SARS. The same BSL3 facility undertook the validation of diagnostic kits for the SARs virus and the diagnosis of blood samples.