Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) held the ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – Resilient Command and Control (RC2) event on Wednesday 5 August 2026 in Adelaide, South Australia.
ASCA Pitch Day 2026 - RC2 sought innovative solutions on the 3 challenge statements, as part of the RC2 Request for Information process:
- 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.
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.
Pitch presenters
ASCA invited 14 Pitch presenters to deliver their promising solutions at this event, held at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research Summit 2026 (ADSTAR Summit 2026) in Adelaide, as part of the ADSTAR Summit 2026 program.
| Company name | Pitch title | State |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Systems and Technologies, Lockheed Martin Australia | Project Albatross: Restoring and Maintaining Command and Control from the Stratosphere | Australian Capital Territory |
| Anywise | SWIFT | Victoria |
| ASR Defence | Vanguard Atlas - Keeping the Kill Chain Alive in Contested Communications | Victoria |
| Aurizn Defence | Reticulum inspired resilient Command and Control with Edge AI | South Australia |
| Australian National University | Provably Secure Tactical Edge C2 Platform | Australian Capital Territory |
| Boeing Defence Australia | Next generation networking | Victoria |
| CISTECH Solutions | CISTECH Tactical Edge ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) | Queensland |
| Codehaus | TAKBot Resilient Command and Control | South Australia |
| Cueven | Trusted Sensor Assurance Layer for Resilient Command and Control | Victoria |
| Forge Photonics | Cost-asymmetric Photonic Inertial Navigation | Australian Capital Territory |
| Panop | PlatypOS | Australian Capital Territory |
| Q-CTRL | MagSLAM: Mapless quantum-enabled magnetic navigation for aerial ISR missions | New South Wales |
| Space CoLAB | HaloCore: Quantum-Secure Laser Communications | Victoria |
| Stratoship | HARCC: High Altitude Resilient Command and Control | Queensland |
Prize winners
ASCA awarded prizes to the top pitches at the ADSTAR Summit 2026 Gala Dinner on 5 August 2026, with winners selected by a panel of senior Defence officials.
| Prize | Pitch presenter and organisation | Pitch title |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation Award | Dr Michael Hush, Q-CTRL | MagSLAM: Mapless quantum-enabled magnetic navigation for aerial ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) missions |
| Innovation Award Finalist | Associate Professor Alex Potanin, Australian National University and the University of New South Wales | Provably Secure Tactical Edge Command and Control Platform |
| Innovation Award Finalist | Dr Justin Wong, Forge Photonics | Cost-asymmetric Photonic Inertial Navigation |
| Best Presenter Award | Dr Shawn Goussous, Cueven | Trusted Sensor Assurance Resilient C2 |
Video recording
ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – RC2 Pitch Presentation video recording
Details
Date
5 August 2026,10:30 am – 12:30 pm