A Defence Technology Centre carries out military science

Military science

Military science is the process of translating national defence policy to produce military capability by employing military scientists, including theorists, researchers, experimental scientists, applied scientists, designers, engineers, test technicians, and military personnel responsible for...

 research on behalf of the UK government. They are consortia with members from industry, universities as well as QinetiQ

QinetiQ

Qinetiq is a British global defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former UK government agency, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency , when it was split up in June 2001...

. They are organised by scientific themes. There are currently four DTCs. One for Human Factors

Human factors

Human factors science or human factors technologies is a multidisciplinary field incorporating contributions from psychology, engineering, industrial design, statistics, operations research and anthropometry...

 Integration, one on Electromagnetic Remote Sensing

Remote sensing

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth by means of propagated signals Remote sensing...

, one on Data and Information Fusion and one on Autonomous and Semi Autonomous Vehicles.

External links

• Ministry of Defence page on DTCs
• Data Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre
• Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre
• Electro Magnetic Remote Sensing Defence Technology Centre
• Systems Engineering & Integrated Systems for Defence: Autonomous and Semi Autonomous Vehicles Defence Technology Centre