• To maintain a permanent liaison between serving and retired personnel, both military and civilian who work or who have worked in the defence domain where the focus is environmental information, hydrographic, oceanographic and geographic surveys, locating and target acquisition, navigation, and geospatial intelligence.
• To keep abreast of current issues of interest to this professional community.
• To recognise the most significant contributions within this community by both members of the Armed Forces and civilians through the award of annual prizes.

The Constitution sets out the Objects and organisation of the DSA in detail.

DSA Prizes

The Association awards seven prizes annually which are open to all military personnel, Civil Servants and civilians who, in the opinion of the DSA Council, have made a significant contribution to the advancement of the technology or management associated with targeting, locating, environmental support, mapping and the acquisition and management of geospatial data. To see further details of the DSA Prizes award criteria.

Background to the DSA

For some information on the History of the DSA