
Member Capabilities
Our consortium members deliver cutting-edge dual-use technologies across 17 Key Industrial Capabilities recognized by the Government of Canada.
Why Work With Our Members?
Canadian Sovereignty
Homegrown solutions that support Canadian industrial and technological sovereignty.
Proven Track Record
In-market organizations with demonstrated delivery of dual-use technologies.
Research Excellence
Connected to University of Waterloo and regional R&D excellence in quantum, AI, and advanced materials.
Ethical Framework
Commitment to protection-focused innovation aligned with legal, ethical, and export-control standards.
Domains We Serve
- Arctic Sovereignty
- Border Security
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Cyber-Physical Resilience
- Maritime Intelligence
- Secure Airspace
Key Industrial Capabilities (KICs)
What are KICs?
RPAS Wilco SafeAirspace combines drone detection with real-time authorization awareness to give security teams a unified operational picture for government and defence airspace.

ATOMS builds AI-native requirements management for defence and dual-use systems. Engineers can query, trace, and verify requirements against standards like DO-178C and MIL-STD directly inside Claude, Cursor, or Copilot, saving substantial time in compliance review and audit preparation.

Aurmada is a dual-use Canadian startup developing advanced materials with built-in technologies to protect, connect, and augment human-machine capabilities. The company provides capabilities in sensors, hardware, and software for defence, security, healthcare, sports, and enterprise applications.

Avidrone builds long-range cargo UAS designed to carry heavy payloads across long distances, with end-to-end systems designed and built in Canada for defence and high-end industrial use.
AXIBO develops Canadian humanoid robotics and autonomous systems with secure teleoperation, learning-from-demonstration, and in-house actuator design from gears and electronics to firmware, supporting locomotion and material-handling applications.

CSMC is developing a dual-use micronuclear power plant capability for space and defence systems, with active hardware prototyping in Waterloo.

CarbonLume is developing a light-driven methane decomposition process that converts natural gas into high-performance, tunable carbon nanotubes while eliminating direct combustion emissions. The lab-validated process is designed to scale into containerized reactor modules, enabling future deployment at remote sites and critical infrastructure to produce advanced CNT-based materials for lighter armor, higher-density energy storage, and improved EMI/RF shielding in defence platforms.

Connect Tech builds rugged, MIL-tested high-performance edge computing hardware, serving mission-critical applications on land, sea, air, and space as NVIDIA's largest North American edge hardware partner.

Ctrl develops remote sensing products serving energy and government customers, combining remotely piloted systems with AI-driven insights.
Cyberworks Robotics develops an autonomous self-driving vehicle for transporting munitions on military bases, designed to support safer and more efficient ground logistics operations.

eLeapPower supplies integrated power electronics for electric commercial and defence vehicles, delivering smaller, lighter, lower-cost systems with strong sub-zero performance for remote and tactical operations.
Electromate is a Canadian distributor of robotic, mechatronic, and motion-control solutions, helping manufacturers build better machines with differentiated automation technology.

ENVGO builds autonomous, zero-emission hydrofoiling vessels with advanced flight control and onboard autonomy for patrol, SAR, surveillance, logistics, and critical infrastructure protection.

GeoMate converts satellite imagery into simulation-ready geospatial environments for synthetic training, terrain and route analysis, and decision support.

H2nanO develops modular, low-energy thermal distillation systems for water desalination and reuse, generating high-purity water from seawater, brines, and wastewater using waste heat, solar heat, geothermal sources, and advanced materials.

Independent Robotics builds AI-enabled tools for command and control of unmanned fleets, mission data summarization, and autonomous underwater systems for defence and maritime operations.

Intelline makes fuel-agnostic heavy-duty generators. Its CAVIE generator technology provides a deployable and scalable power solution designed to enhance energy resilience and operational flexibility, with higher fuel efficiency than traditional diesel gensets and seamless switching between diesel, hydrogen, and biofuels.

Ultra-portable spectral color X-ray systems for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD).

Snow Flea is a distributed sensing and electronic warfare network fusing EO-IR, radar, seismic, acoustic, and signals intelligence to defend Arctic assets across all domains.

Maerospace manufactures the PASEr High-Frequency Surface Wave Radar for long-range, over-the-horizon ship tracking, fusing radar and satellite data for maritime domain awareness.

Navitas Vehicle Systems develops advanced electric drive and powertrain solutions for specialized vehicles, enabling reliable, high-efficiency electrification in demanding environments. The technology supports defence and government fleets by enhancing energy efficiency, reducing thermal and acoustic signatures, and improving operational resilience in off-road and tactical applications.

Palitronica develops physics-based verification technology that helps defence and aerospace organizations trust the electronics they build and procure by rapidly validating hardware and firmware integrity across the cyber supply chain.

Pegasus Aeronautics manufactures high-endurance UAV platforms capable of operating in harsh environments for defence and government applications.

Phantom Photonics is developing quantum-enhanced photonic sensors and quantum LiDAR systems for long-range 3D sensing with noise resilience and anti-blinding capabilities.

Photon-IV builds AI-driven orchestration for satellite-terrestrial networks, predicting handoffs between cell towers and satellites to keep devices connected in motion across defence and commercial IoT environments.

Qidni Labs develops a portable, nearly waterless blood purification platform for prolonged field care, supporting critically injured patients for more than 24 hours in austere, remote, disaster-response, and military medicine environments.

Qubic develops quantum hardware for mission-critical applications across quantum computing, defence, and communications, including next-generation radar and sensing technologies.

PASSENGER is a hardware-agnostic orchestration and data platform unifying robots, IoT sensors, vehicles, and automation systems into one operational view for secure, vendor-neutral coordination.
Ribbit builds and operates dual-use autonomous aircraft for remote and contested regions, serving public safety, defence, research, transportation, Indigenous, humanitarian, and commercial air-freight partners.
Skygauge builds drones that perform physical work such as tactile inspections, rust removal, and painting to keep people out of hazardous environments.

Technology Trace develops trevii, a secure IoT asset tracker that gives asset owners real-time location and in-use visibility for remotely deployed medical, defence, and other field assets.

TensorOne develops portable, AI-enabled counter-UAS systems that detect and neutralize threats using interceptor drones across fixed, manned, and unmanned platforms.

UpScale Quantum Solutions develops deployable neutral-atom quantum systems and scalable atom-photon interconnect modules for resilient sensing, precise timing, and trusted coordination across distributed assets.

Xeos Space delivers space and near-space distributed connectivity and ISR networks for multi-domain defence and security missions.
For Prospective Members
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