ASCA EDT Explore: Information Warfare and Quantum Technologies
Funds Australian companies and universities conducting long-term R&D in information warfare countermeasures and quantum technologies for Defence.
The ASCA EDT Explore program is a contract-based research initiative run by the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator within Australia's Department of Defence, under the ASCA EDT stream. EDT is designed to test ideas and concepts and to invest in deeper long-term partnerships with universities and industry to nurture research and development capability shaped by Defence's future requirements…
Information Warfare — detecting and countering AI-powered synthetic media and disinformation; Quantum Technologies — precision sensing, enhanced computational capability, and secure quantum communications.
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