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Current sites include:<ref>{{Cite web |title=About us |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory/about |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref>

=== *Headquarters ==={{ndash}} [[Porton Down]], Wiltshire

=== *Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Portsdown West ==={{ndash}} [[Portsdown Hill|Portsdown West]], Hampshire

* [[Porton Down]], Wiltshire

*Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Alverstoke {{ndash}}[[Alverstoke]], Hampshire (as a tenant of the [[Institute of Naval Medicine]], Gosport)

*Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Newcastle {{ndash}} National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), Newcastle<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newcastle Helix |url=https://newcastlehelix.com/stories/new-defence-science-and-technology-laboratory-hub-locating-to-helix |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=newcastlehelix.com}}</ref>

=== Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Portsdown West ===

* [[Portsdown Hill|Portsdown West]], Hampshire

=== Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Alverstoke ===

* [[Alverstoke]], Hampshire (as a tenant of the [[Institute of Naval Medicine]], Gosport)

=== Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Newcastle ===

* National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), Newcastle<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newcastle Helix |url=https://newcastlehelix.com/stories/new-defence-science-and-technology-laboratory-hub-locating-to-helix |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=newcastlehelix.com}}</ref>

The former CAST sites at [[Langhurst|Langhurst, West Sussex]] and [[Sandridge]], Hertfordshire were closed around 2020 after the 2018 merger of CAST into Dstl.<ref name=":1" />

Sections of {{convert|150-millimetre|mm|in|abbr=in|adj=mid|-thick (5.9&nbsp;in)}} [[Low-background steel|pre-atomic steel]] plate uncontaminated with [[radionuclide]]s, recovered from [[HMS Vanguard (23)|HMS ''Vanguard'']], were used for the shielding of the [[Whole Body Counter|whole body monitor]] at the Radiobiological Research Laboratory (now Dstl) at [[Alverstoke]], [[Gosport]], Hampshire.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cowling|first=Giles|title=From Land, Sea and Air|url=http://www.defencemanagement.com/article.asp?id=200&content_name=National%20Security%20and%20Resilience&article=5132|url-status=dead|journal=Defence Management Journal|volume=31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225191422/http://www.defencemanagement.com/article.asp?id=200&content_name=National%20Security%20and%20Resilience&article=5132|archive-date=25 February 2012}}</ref>

== Spin-offs ==