Editing CSIRO (section)

== Research and focus areas ==
CSIRO is structured into Research Business Units, National Facilities and Collections, and Services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csiro.au/en/about/corporate-governance/chief-executive-and-executive-team/chief-executive-and-executive-team|title=CSIRO Operating Model}}</ref>

=== Research Business Units ===
[[File:NICTA Eveleigh offices.jpg|thumb|Data 61 head office, [[Eveleigh, New South Wales]]]]
As at 2023, CSIRO's research areas are identified as "Impact science" and organised into the following Business Units:
* Agriculture and Food
* Health and Biosecurity<ref name=csiro>{{cite web | title=Health and Biosecurity | website=CSIRO | url=https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/BF | access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref>
*Data61<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data61.csiro.au/ |title=Data 61| access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref>
* Energy
* Manufacturing
* Mineral Resources and
* Environment (being the amalgamation of the former Land and Water and Oceans & Atmosphere BUs)

===National facilities and collections===
====National facilities====
CSIRO manages national research facilities and scientific infrastructure on behalf of the nation to assist with the delivery of research. The national facilities and specialised laboratories are available to both international and Australian users from industry and research. As at 2019, the following National Facilities are listed:
* [[Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness]] (ACDP)
* [[Australia Telescope National Facility]] – radio telescopes included in the Facility include the [[Australia Telescope Compact Array]], the [[Parkes Observatory]], [[Mopra Observatory]] and the [[Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder]] 
* [[Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex]]
* [[Energy Centre and National Solar Energy Centre]]
* Marine National Facility ([[RV Investigator|R.V. "Investigator"]])
* [[New Norcia Station|New Norcia ground station]]
* NovaSAR-1 satellite
* [[Pawsey Supercomputing Centre]]

====Collections====
CSIRO manages a number of collections of animal and plant specimens that contribute to national and international biological knowledge. The National Collections contribute to taxonomic, genetic, agricultural and ecological research. As at 2019, CSIRO's Collections are listed as the following:
* Australian National Algae Culture Collection
* The [[Atlas of Living Australia]]
* Australian Tree Seed Centre
* Australian National Fish Collection
* Australian National Insect Collection
* [[Australian National Herbarium]]
* Australian National Soil Archive (managed through A&F)
* [[Australian National Wildlife Collection]]
* [[Cape Grim Air Archive]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://csiropedia.csiro.au/cape-grim-air-archive/ |title=Cape Grim Air |access-date=8 November 2022 |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104232102/https://csiropedia.csiro.au/cape-grim-air-archive/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Services ===
[[File:CSIRO ScienceImage 609 Automatic Rain Collector for Measuring Acidity.jpg|thumb|An automatic rainwater collector, designed by CSIRO for measuring [[Acid rain|acidity of rainfall]] in remote areas (February 2000)]]
In 2019, CSIRO Services are itemised as follows:
* Materials and infrastructure services
* Agricultural and environmental analysis
* Environmental services
* Biological, food and medical science services
* Australian Animal Health Laboratory services

Other services are noted as including education, [[CSIRO Publishing|publishing]], infrastructure technologies, Small and Medium Enterprise engagement and CSIRO Futures.