Australia - Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Decision Advantage Request for Proposal

Description

The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) is transforming the way breakthrough military solutions are delivered by rapidly translating innovative technologies into capabilities that will help take Defence further, faster.
Working in close collaboration with defence industry and academic research organisations, ASCA’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) program focusses on shaping and future proofing the  defence innovation ecosystem.  EDT invests in long-term R&D partnerships for the development of new technologies that may provide leap ahead improvements to existing capabilities or new knowledge that helps identify opportunities for development of asymmetric capabilities for Defence. 
You are invited to submit a response to ASCA‘s Request for Proposal (RFP) - ATM ID: ASCA EDT DA RFP for the capability effect of Decision Advantage.  
Decision Advantage refers to the ability to process, analyse, and act upon information faster and more accurately than adversaries. 
For this call to market, ASCA is looking for cutting-edge, innovative proposals to apply one or more of the following technology areas to the Opportunity Statements for the Decision Advantage capability effect, in or across any of the Defence domains (air, land, maritime, space, cyber):
• Automated Data Integration & Interpretation; 
• Machine Reasoning; 
• Multi-modal Data Fusion; 
• Augmented Human-Machine Reasoning; 
• AI Agents;
• AI Multi-Modal Foundation Model, and 
• AI Orchestration.

Opportunity closing date

24 January 2025

Value of contract

to be confirmed