ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – Resilient Command and Control

Defence’s Canberra-based Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has released a Request for Information (RFI) for the ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – Resilient Command and Control (C2).

ASCA Pitch Days provide industry and academia the opportunity to present their idea to Defence and ensure Defence remains aware of new capabilities and innovations, says ASCA.

This Pitch Day 2026 – Resilient C2 will focus on new capabilities and innovations that ensure resilient command and control (C2). Respondents are requested to provide solutions to at least one of the 3 challenge statements:

• Operating in denied, degraded, intermittent and limited (DDIL) environments.
• Protecting and ensuring resilient C2 capabilities.
• Recovery of degraded C2 networks.

This is the first of 2 ASCA Pitch Days to be held in 2026. This first Pitch Day will be held at the Defence Science and Technology Group’s Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research Summit (ADSTAR 2026), to be held in Adelaide from 4 to 6 August 2026. Date and timings of the ASCA PItch Day are still to be confirmed.

The RFI is available on AusTender, closing at 2 pm AEST on Tuesday 14 April 2026.

A virtual market briefing will be made available for registered attendees at 11 am AEDT on Tuesday 17 March 2026.