The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has signed 21 contracts worth a combined $60 million with Australian companies as part of the Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) program.
“Through the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, the Government is driving cutting-edge research and development and capability delivery that is aligned with Defence priorities and a future made in Australia," said the Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery, Pat Conroy.
“Defence is working with industry and research partners to develop solutions that can provide our soldiers, sailors and aviators with an asymmetric advantage on the battlefield.”
The recipients include:
- Analog Quantum Circuits
- Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation
- Consunet
- DeteQt
- Diamond Defence
- Infleqtion (Cold Quanta)
- Monash University
- Nomad Atomics
- Q-CTRL Pty Ltd
- QuantX Labs
- Lockheed Martin Australia Advanced Systems & Technologies
- University of Adelaide
- University of New South Wales
- University of Technology Sydney
- University of Western Australia
The EDT program is focused on investigating and developing technologies that align with Defence's goals and have the potential to provide Defence with asymmetric capabilities.