WAT is a university unique on the country scale, where scientists work on the cutting edge solutions implemented by the military and civil industry. WAT creates technologies used in practice.
It was here in 1963 that the first Polish laser was created. In 2012 scientists from the Institute of Optoelectronics built LIDAR. This device installed in the Palace of Culture and Science studied the air composition looking for biological contamination over the National Stadium during Euro2012 games.