 In turn, DRA became a division of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 1995.The Chertsey and Christchurch sites were among those allocated to Qinetiq when DERA was broken up in 2001 with the intention that Qinetiq would be privatised, which happened in 2006.Technologies such as electric armour were retained within the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).