Well, yes. I spent about 30 years of my life as a defence research scientist at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury SA (near Adelaide), first known as the Long Range Weapons Establishment, and latterly, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. For 20 of those years I led Australian teams working with our allies in various defence projects. Because the research was security classified I cannot discuss it here, however I have included a list of unclassified publications. I should just like to say that Australian scientists made a largely unrecognized contribution to our joint security during the Cold War.

The Preparation and checking of the Mathematical Model of a Guided Weapons System. Proceedings of the First Australian Conference on Automatic Computing and Data Processing. Sydney, NSW May, 1960.

Validation of Mathematical Models using Analogue Computers. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Analogue Computation. Opatija, Yugoslavia. September, 1961.

(with A. R. Cawthorne) Bloodhound Missile Evaluation. Lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society, London. 6 March, 1962. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society Vol. 66, No. 621, September, 1962.

(with G. E. Beltrame, P. R. Benyon and M. L. Possingham) System Simulation: The Development of Computer Models to Evaluate Weapon System Performance. Elect. Eng. Trans. I.E. Aust. Vol. EE8, No. 1, April, 1972.

        And the recently declassified WRE Report SAD 20

Note:

Brian J. Polomka and myself have prepared a history of some of the work mentioned above - that done by Systems Assessment Division on the mathematical modelling and computer simulation of guided missiles.