Advance Notice - RFP for ASCA EDT - Decision Advantage
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About this tender
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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