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Capability profile
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and provides customer support and training. Its current Canadian Modular Assault Rifle programme combines production with system integration and engineering support for the C7/C8 replacement.
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
The March 2026 CMAR award specifies 30,000 rifles in phase 1 over three years. Remaining quantities are an optional phase 2 beginning in year four; the full 65,402-system ceiling is not a completed or wholly firm delivery.
Supply is through military and law-enforcement procurement and associated support arrangements. CMAR identifies Kitchener production and at least 80% Canadian content, creating a programme-specific industrial route.
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Source type: official company product
Supports: Capability · name
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · summary
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · core features
Third- and fourth-line repair and overhaul support
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Colt Canada currently presents Military small-arms production and support through its official public capability surface.
Supports: Capability · core features
Rifle, carbine and machine-gun manufacturing
Supports: Capability · core features
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
True North Map maps Military small-arms production and support to advanced manufacturing and integration from its documented technology functions.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Canadian Modular Assault Rifle fielding
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · core features
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Source-bounded strategic technology capability
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Infantry small-arms sustainment
Supports: Capability · name
Military small-arms production and support
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the small-arms tag from Colt Canada's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Supports: Capability · summary
Manufactures service rifles, carbines and machine guns and provides depot-level repair and overhaul support.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the land-systems tag from Colt Canada's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Colt Canada manufactures military and law-enforcement small arms and supplies customer training and support. The official product portfolio includes rifles, carbines and machine guns; operator and maintainer training are offered alongside products.
Defence Investment Agency · Mar 19, 2026
Source type: award or contract
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Canada awarded Kitchener-based Colt Canada the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle contract for up to 65,402 systems to replace the C7/C8 fleet. The CMAR project includes system integration and engineering support. The CMAR announcement establishes a production award and planned deliveries, not completion of the entire fleet replacement. The award identifies Kitchener production and an at-least-80-percent Canadian-content commitment. CMAR phase 1 procures 30,000 rifles over three years, estimated at C$307 million including taxes; the remainder is phase 2 under an optional provision starting in year four.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
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Supports: Capability · maturity
Defence Investment Agency, Government of Canada's public evidence confirms a company-specific project, award, program or operating context, while configuration-specific acceptance and scale remain bounded by the reviewer warning.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Canada awarded Kitchener-based Colt Canada the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle contract for up to 65,402 systems to replace the C7/C8 fleet. The CMAR project includes system integration and engineering support. The CMAR announcement establishes a production award and planned deliveries, not completion of the entire fleet replacement. The award identifies Kitchener production and an at-least-80-percent Canadian-content commitment. CMAR phase 1 procures 30,000 rifles over three years, estimated at C$307 million including taxes; the remainder is phase 2 under an optional provision starting in year four.
Supports: Capability · summary
Canada awarded Kitchener-based Colt Canada the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle contract for up to 65,402 systems to replace the C7/C8 fleet. The CMAR project includes system integration and engineering support. The CMAR announcement establishes a production award and planned deliveries, not completion of the entire fleet replacement. The award identifies Kitchener production and an at-least-80-percent Canadian-content commitment. CMAR phase 1 procures 30,000 rifles over three years, estimated at C$307 million including taxes; the remainder is phase 2 under an optional provision starting in year four.
Supports: Capability · core features
Canada awarded Kitchener-based Colt Canada the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle contract for up to 65,402 systems to replace the C7/C8 fleet. The CMAR project includes system integration and engineering support. The CMAR announcement establishes a production award and planned deliveries, not completion of the entire fleet replacement. The award identifies Kitchener production and an at-least-80-percent Canadian-content commitment. CMAR phase 1 procures 30,000 rifles over three years, estimated at C$307 million including taxes; the remainder is phase 2 under an optional provision starting in year four.
