DEADLINE: AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge
28 April @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am AWST
The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) mission is to accelerate the development and transition of asymmetric capabilities to the Australian Defence Force through innovation, in order to meet Defence priority needs.
Challenge : Undersea Communications and Autonomy
AUKUS partners are seeking to research and develop innovations to enable the synchronisation and teaming of multiple undersea systems. We invite innovations that enable some or all of the following Desired Capability Effects:
1. Provide near real time communications between Undersea Vehicles (UVs)
2. Provide near real time communications from UVs to Command and Control (C2) Systems /Battle Management System (BMS)
3. Provide near real time communications between seabed systems to UVs and C2 System and BMS
4. Provide a system that can optimally allocate the right asset to the right task in a dynamic and complex environment
5. Provide optimal bandwidth utilisation and effective range, and perform in a contested/congested environment
For full details and requirements, please refer to the AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025: Undersea Communications and Autonomy documentation suite.