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Advance Notice - RFP for ASCA EDT - Decision Advantage

Advance notice — not yet open for submissionsExpected tender release: 24 November 2026 — indicative and subject to change

Tender Overview

ReferenceASCA EDT DA RFP
Issued byDepartment of Defence
LocationWestern Australia : Gascoyne : Goldfields/Esperance : Great Southern : Kimberley : Mid West : Peel : Perth Metropolitan : Pilbara : South West : Wheatbelt New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End Australian Capital Territory Tasmania
CategoryDefence & Law Enforcement Services & Equipment : Military Services & National Defence

About this advance notice

This is Advance Notice of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for research projects to be delivered under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) Program, for the capability effect of Decision Advantage. ASCA aims to release the RFP for EDT Decision Advantage on AusTender in November 2024 with delivery commencing in mid-2025. A one-day Open Co-Design Workshop will be conducted shortly after the RFP release date. For this call to market, ASCA is looking for cutting-edge, innovative proposals to apply one or more of the following technology areas to the Opportunity Statements for Decision Advantage: Automated Data Integration & Interpretation Machine Reasoning Multi-Modal Data Fusion Augmented Human-Machine Reasoning Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents AI Multi-Modal Foundation Model, and AI Orchestration. Submissions received in response to previous ASCA Approaches to Market (ATMs), are not automatically reconsidered for this RFP.

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