Defence is seeking technologies that could enhance situational awareness capabilities, including air defence and airborne weapons systems, electronic warfare, early warning and control capabilities, and technologies that can sense and better understand operating environments.

  • Enhance integrated air and missile defence systems (IAMD). Enhance long range strike capabilities, including hypersonic missiles and their components, materials and processes necessary for the manufacture, maintenance, use and storage of long-range strike capabilities.
  • Enhance technology or equipment used for in-air operations, including air-to-air refuelling and airborne weapons systems.
  • Enhance technology or equipment that improve the survivability of aircraft and crew against modern threats.
  • Reduce the cost-per-shot, and/or increase magazine depth and/or sustainable readiness of any of the above.