AUKUS partners launch Innovation Challenge 2025
31 March 25
AUKUS partners have released the trilateral AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025, connecting our governments to the very best technology across our industrial and innovation sectors to deliver cutting-edge capabilities to our defence forces.
The AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025 seeks innovative solutions from industry and research institutions around the world to provide capability with a focus on undersea communications and control of autonomous systems.
First held in 2024, the AUKUS Innovation Challenge series brings together the AUKUS innovation systems, so that capability can be rapidly developed and shared securely for the collective benefit of AUKUS partners.
Australia’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) will lead the Australian component, and work with the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Accelerator and United States’ Defense Innovation Unit.
In February 2025, Advanced Design Technology and Penten entered into contracts with ASCA, following successful participation in last year’s AUKUS Electronic Warfare Innovation Challenge.
The contracts, valued at a combined AUD $8 million, support the development and demonstration of electronic warfare prototypes that address Australian Defence Force operating requirements.
Source: Defence Press Release