New Investment Accelerates Canada’s C5ISRT Programs
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Calian Group Ltd. has launched a $100 million initiative to accelerate Canada’s sovereign C5ISRT capabilities through Calian VENTURES, the company’s defence innovation unit. The initiative supports national defence and Arctic sovereignty priorities.
It will establish a network of regional development labs across Canada to test, validate, and scale defence technologies developed through VENTURES. The labs will bring together SMEs, the Canadian Armed Forces, NATO, government agencies, academia, and industry partners to advance interoperable solutions from concept to operational capability.
Funding will come from VENTURES, co-development of intellectual property with SMEs, regional investment agencies, and federal programs. Calian and its partners aim to provide shared infrastructure, technical expertise, and integration pathways to strengthen Arctic sovereignty, enhance national security, and modernize the Canadian Armed Forces.
C5ISRT—Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting—represents the modern defence architecture required to operate across land, sea, air, space, and cyber. It integrates cyber and targeting as core functions to enable faster decision-making, tighter sensor-to-effect integration, and resilient operations.
"Through this investment we are scaling the environments, integration pathways, and partnerships needed to turn innovation into operational capability, while ensuring Canada retains trusted, sovereign control of its defence data and systems,” said Chris Pogue, President, Defence and Space, Calian.
Calian supports defence customers and integrates people, systems, and operations across domains. Its capabilities include synthetic training, cybersecurity, space and satellite communications, systems engineering, and secure-by-design C5ISRT architectures.
