The Role of SMEs in Sovereignty & Security. Supporting SMEs and OEMs means supporting Canada. It ensures that Canadian engineers, scientists, and manufacturers have the resources to develop world-class defence technology.

Strategic Epistemology (SE) offers a rigorous framework for understanding the underlying beliefs, values, and assumptions that drive competition, cooperation, and conflict.

VAdm (Ret’d) Mark Norman argues that Canada must move beyond short-term distraction about defence spending and focus on how to create a sustainable, value-added defence industry.

AI Pieces of the IMD Puzzle. Leigh and Ven outline what’s needed to successfully implement IMD in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).

From working as a public servant with the dnd to moving into industry with GDMS–Canada, Calian, and now Compass Rose Group, I’ve spent a lot of time in the defence and security community. But how do you channel that experience into the right board position?

To engage effectively in worldview warfare, one must employ strategic epistemology—a systematic approach to understanding how knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions shape strategic behaviour.

Defence Insider by Mark Norman: Our focus needs to rapidly shift from rationalizing the WHAT and WHY of our defence spending problem, to HOW we are actually going to solve it.

CCC has enabled contracts for Canadian businesses from the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) valued over $500 million.

IMD is a collection of platform-agnostic intelligence about a given system, which when employed together, help define that system’s location, emissions, performance, behavior, and function (i.e., early warning radar for a surface-to-air missile).

Lisa Vandehei