The first major test of the acquisition powers of the Defence department’s new Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) will pass a major milestone next month with a competitive “fly-off” of prototypes developed by local drone makers.
The Sovereign UAS Challenge being pursued by ASCA has attracted criticism for a range of perceived shortcomings. It’s sub-scale. The investment is tiny. It doesn’t involve new science or new technology.
But the technology is not the point, it is the acquisition process that is potentially game-changing here.
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