ASCA EDT Decision Advantage
Funds Australian companies and universities developing AI and data-fusion technologies for Defence decision-making capability.
The ASCA EDT Decision Advantage program is a contract round run by the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator within Australia's Department of Defence, sitting under the ASCA EDT (Advanced Technologies Research) stream. EDT funds deep, long-term partnerships with industry and universities to nurture research and development capability aligned with Defence's future needs. The Decision Advantag…
Automated Data Integration and Interpretation; Machine Reasoning; Multi-Modal Data Fusion; Augmented Human-Machine Reasoning; Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents; AI Multi-Modal Foundation Model; AI Orchestration.
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