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The government’s Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) is seeking a Emerging Disruptive Technology Assessment Symposium (EDTAS) academic partner to support its next symposium.
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The EDTAS academic partner will co-host the event and act as the primary hub for broad national and international academic outreach by co-ordinating academic participation with internationally recognised leading researchers from institutions across Australia.
Research drivers, challenges and opportunities around the following themes will be explored, including:
- Artificial intelligence, human-machine teaming, autonom, and real-time battle simulation and modelling to assist decision making;
- Organisational structures and cultures for greater headquarter agility;
- Information, visualisation, augmented reality, and virtual assistants for providing enhanced situational awareness and sense-making;
- Architectures for C2 distributed to the warfighter;
- Exploitation, through data analytics, of vast quantities of increasingly diverse data sets; and
- Innovative human, social, cultural, and technical systems to enable agile organisational forms and commanders to rapidly execute command intent.
The EDTAS series helps future-proof Australian Defence as part of the NGTF.
Additionally, CDIC has stated that it would also be desirable for the academic partner to:
- Have the ability to provide both access to, and support for, a high level virtual video conferencing and syndicate/workshop platform;
- Be able to identify a thought leader at professorial level and a post-doctoral researcher to provide operational support in partnership with the NGFT; and
- Indicate how this EDTAS could tie in with other activities of relevance to agile command and control conducted by the university.
It considers expansive science and technology topics that will likely have a major transformational or disruptive impact for the defence or national security domains in the 10+ year time frame.
These symposia have previously been held in NSW, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, and will continue to seek academic partners and geographic locations indicative of a national program.
The EDTAS academic partner must be a signatory of the Defence Science Partnership Program and must have renowned research programs in a technology area of relevance to agile command and control.
