Just one month after its formation Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has issued a Request for Information for its first Innovation Challenge. ASCA is seeking information to support an Australian sovereign Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and trusted autonomy industrial…
As it promised, the Australian Department of Defence on 1 July launched the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) to drive Defence innovation and the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA) which will be responsible and accountable for the management and oversight of…
The Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has calculated that Defence spending will actually fall slightly up to 2025-26, despite the urgency expressed in last month’s Defence Strategic Review. However, spending on defence innovation will rise slightly within this constrained…
Australia’s 2023-24 Defence Budget was handed down on 9 May 2023, less than a month after the release of the unclassified Defence Strategic Review (DSR). It follows much the same trajectory as the budgets handed down last year: the budget…
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles and the Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy MP with Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro announcing the establishment of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator. Image: Defence Defence will invest $3.4 billion…
Leidos Mayhem hypersonic missile. Image: Leidos Defence will invest $3.4 billion over the next decade to establish the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA). The new Accelerator will replace the Defence Innovation Hub and Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF), which the…