DSTC2014 is the second Malaysian international conference on Defence and Security Technology organized by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM), Malaysian Society for Engineering & Technology (MySET) and IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Malaysia. The conference will be attended by engineers, researchers, authorities, lecturers, academics, industrialists locally and globally and also officer and personnel from the Malaysian Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence (Mindef). Participants hail from all corners of the Asia Pacific, United Kingdom not to mention Arab countries. Through the current response and record, we expect to gather around 200 delegates for this conference out of which more than 20% would be from overseas.

This conference covers various topics ranges from the developments of defence and security communications, defence and personnel mobility, sensors and surveillance, electronic warfare and countermeasures, management and strategy, and emerging technology, amongst others. In particular, the conference will be focusing on the following fields (but not limited to);

- Survivability
- Communication and Surveillance
- Defence Mobility
- Weapon and Ammunition
- Electronic Warfare
- Defence Management and Strategies
- Remote Sensing and Sensors
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Data and Communications Securities
- Information Technologies
- Radar and Systems
- Signal and Image Processing
- Defence and Security Technology Policies
- Laser and Photonics
- Civil and Mechanical
- Aerospace
- Biomedical Engineering