The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) opened a Request for Information (RFI) in March 2026, seeking new capabilities and innovations for Resilient Command and Control (RC2).
The RFI sought solutions 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 command and control (C2) capabilities
- Challenge Statement 3 – Recovery of degraded C2 networks.
Milestones
In August 2026, 14 organisations will present their promising solutions at the ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – RC2 event, held at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) Summit 2026 in Adelaide.
The event will be delivered in a hybrid format, with both in-person and virtual attendance options available. For more information and registration visit ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – RC2 event webpage.
Background
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.
The RFI opened on 10 March 2025, through AusTender – ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – RC2, and closed on 14 April 2026.
A virtual market briefing for industry and academia occurred on 17 March 2026.