ASCA Pitch Day 2026 - Resilient Command and Control (C2)

Dear Australian industry and academia The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) continues to transform the way breakthrough military solutions are delivered, by rapidly translating innovative technologies into capabilities that will help take Defence further, faster. As part of this effort, ASCA’s Pitch Days seek to provide industry and academia the opportunity to pitch their innovative technologies to senior Defence officials and members of the broader defence ecosystem. On behalf of ASCA, I would like to inform you of our first pitch day for 2026, with the theme: Resilient Command and Control (C2).  We have released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking responses on innovative technologies that could solve any of the following Challenge Statements: • Challenge Statement 1 – Operating in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) environments • Challenge Statement 2 – Protecting and ensuring resilient C2 capabilities • Challenge Statement 3 – Recovery of degraded C2 networks. These Challenge Statements reflect Defence’s strategic priorities, and respondents to this RFI who submit the most promising solutions will be invited to present at the Pitch Day event to be held at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research Summit 2026 (ADSTAR 2026) in Adelaide, 4–6 August 2026. Subject to the Conditions of RFI, ASCA will fund the travel and accommodation for successful respondents to present at the Pitch Day event. Details on how to participate are included in the Conditions of RFI. Subject to the conditions of the RFI, ASCA will be accepting submissions from 10 March to 14 April, with notification of outcomes advised by 3 July 2026. More details on the Pitch Day event will be announced in due course. We look forward to you receiving your submissions.