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The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator has announced it is looking for industry and research partners to co-design projects under ASCA’s first “mission”, focused on the degradation of enemy air defence systems and enhanced data processing.
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The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has called for input from industry on ASCA’s “first mission” today (11 December).
As part of the announcement, Defence has called for solutions, skills and capability needs from industry to address two core priority areas, including long-range strike operations and data processing.
Defence has outlined these inputs will then be used to invite respondents to co-design the first mission. Industry has been invited to submit interest through AusTender.
According to a statement released by Defence, the first two problem statements in ASCA’s first mission are:
- How might we degrade and infiltrate advanced integrated air defence systems so that Defence can conduct effective long-range strike operations, taking into account the speed and scale required to operate in congested and contested environments that are faster than a potential adversary’s ability to react?
- How might we improve the processing and synthesis of large amounts of intelligence data to support the planning and apportionment of platforms, taking into account different classification levels of data, systems and allies data systems?
ASCA was created following a recommendation within the Defence Strategic Review and is supported by a $748 million investment over the next four years. This is expected to grow to $3.4 billion over the next decade.
“Australia’s strategic environment, made more uncertain by rapid technological development, demands a transformation of the defence innovation system to provide vital capabilities for the ADF,” Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy said.
“Today’s call for submissions by ASCA shows the Albanese government is making good on its promise to unlock and ignite innovation and deliver the capabilities our ADF personnel need to do their job in defence of the Australian people.
“This is also an exciting step towards building partnerships to identify innovation opportunities, and crucially, linking technology development and accelerating acquisition that enables the creation of many more jobs in the Australian defence industry. We look forward to working with organisations from across the entire innovation spectrum – from start-ups and SMEs to universities and research providers – to co-design ASCA’s first mission.”
