Departments

Cranfield Defence and Security at Shrivenham is arranged into the following three academic departments to best meet the needs of the domestic and international defence and security sectors. Each academic department comprises of a number of specialist research groups covering a wide-range of defence and security related subjects.
Department of Applied Science, Security and Resilience
- Centre for Defence Chemistry
- Centre for Ordnance Science and Technology
- Cranfield Forensic Institute
- Resilience Centre
- Security Studies Institute
Department of Engineering Systems and Management
- Aeromechanical Systems Group
- Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing Group
- Centre for Defence Acquisition
- Centre for Defence Management and Leadership
- Centre for Human Systems
- Centre for Security Sector Management
- Centre for Systems Engineering
- Future Combat Systems Group
- Impact and Armour Group
- Operational Analysis, Modelling and Simulation Group
- Power and Drive Systems Group
- Weapon Systems and Engineering Dynamics Group
Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering
- Applied Maths and Scientific Computing
- Autonomous Systems Group
- Centre for Applied Systems Study
- Centre for Human Systems
- Centre for Information Systems Engineering
- Centre for Systems Engineering
- Communications and Wireless Networks Group
- Operational Analysis Modelling and Simulation Group
- Sensors Group
These departments, along with the School's students, facilities and other assets, are supported by our service departments, some of which are listed below.
Academic Information Systems (Cranfield IT Support)
Department of Applied Science, Security and Resilience
Department of Engineering Systems and Management
Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering


