Leonardo’s Canadian footprint combines helicopter modernization and support with electronic-warfare simulation, naval electronics and military power systems. Delivery is divided among Leonardo Canada’s coordinating office, Leonardo UK, Canadian DRS businesses and programme partners. Cormorant modernization has reached first flight while deliveries remain future work.
Technical detail
Core features
AW101/CH-149 Cormorant modernization with Leonardo UK and Canadian industrial partners
Canadian naval communications, surveillance and sensor signal-processing support
SHINCOM 3100 secure voice integration with redundant switching and SIP/VoIP interfaces
Halifax military power conversion, distribution, conditioning and UPS manufacture
Electronic-warfare engagement simulation and training software in Ottawa
Strategic technology
Canadian company
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Defence and security review
Remote and complex operations
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Established electronics and support businesses; upgraded Cormorant first flight occurred June 30, 2026, with first delivery planned for 2027.
Commercial availability
Access is through the relevant group business or programme prime. Helicopter modernization, current IMP sustainment and CAE simulator delivery are separate responsibilities.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
The publicly described Aerospace and defence electronics offering may be relevant to monitoring or remote-operation use cases; this is a derived mapping for reviewer assessment.
This is a reviewed public-source assessment. It is not procurement eligibility, endorsement, customer interest, or classified demand.
Original sources 4 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
The official capability material supports the named Aerospace and defence electronics offering and the bounded operational description prepared for reviewer consideration.
Supports: Capability · core features
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · summary
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · name
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Leonardo Canada coordinates the group’s Canadian commercial programmes from Ottawa. The Canadian footprint spans Cormorant helicopter modernization, electronic-warfare simulation and, through DRS entities, naval communications, electro-optics, processing and power conversion. Product and contract roles belong to specific group entities and partners, not automatically the Ottawa coordinating office.
DND’s July 9, 2026 Cormorant project update records the first upgraded CH-149 flight on June 30, 2026, first delivery and initial capability planned in 2027 and full capability in 2030. Leonardo UK is the upgrade contractor, IMP performs Canadian airframe work and current sustainment, and CAE supplies the separate simulator. The fleet target is 16 aircraft.
Supports: Capability · summary
DND’s July 9, 2026 Cormorant project update records the first upgraded CH-149 flight on June 30, 2026, first delivery and initial capability planned in 2027 and full capability in 2030. Leonardo UK is the upgrade contractor, IMP performs Canadian airframe work and current sustainment, and CAE supplies the separate simulator. The fleet target is 16 aircraft.
Leonardo DRS identifies Canadian Naval Electronics activities in Ottawa/Kanata and Pivotal Power in Halifax: communications, surveillance and signal-processing support in Ontario, and military power conversion, UPS, conditioning and distribution equipment in Nova Scotia, including engineering/testing/manufacturing services.
Supports: Capability · core features
Leonardo DRS identifies Canadian Naval Electronics activities in Ottawa/Kanata and Pivotal Power in Halifax: communications, surveillance and signal-processing support in Ontario, and military power conversion, UPS, conditioning and distribution equipment in Nova Scotia, including engineering/testing/manufacturing services.
Leonardo DRS’s SHINCOM 3100 integrates tactical and administrative voice/data communications with redundant red/black switching, SIP/VoIP, hot-swappable architecture and backward compatibility for legacy systems. Interfaces and redundancy are product characteristics, not universal authorization for every classified network or platform.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
DND’s July 9, 2026 Cormorant project update records the first upgraded CH-149 flight on June 30, 2026, first delivery and initial capability planned in 2027 and full capability in 2030. Leonardo UK is the upgrade contractor, IMP performs Canadian airframe work and current sustainment, and CAE supplies the separate simulator. The fleet target is 16 aircraft.
Supports: Capability · core features
DND’s July 9, 2026 Cormorant project update records the first upgraded CH-149 flight on June 30, 2026, first delivery and initial capability planned in 2027 and full capability in 2030. Leonardo UK is the upgrade contractor, IMP performs Canadian airframe work and current sustainment, and CAE supplies the separate simulator. The fleet target is 16 aircraft.
Supports: Capability · summary
Leonardo DRS identifies Canadian Naval Electronics activities in Ottawa/Kanata and Pivotal Power in Halifax: communications, surveillance and signal-processing support in Ontario, and military power conversion, UPS, conditioning and distribution equipment in Nova Scotia, including engineering/testing/manufacturing services.
Supports: Capability · core features
Leonardo DRS identifies Canadian Naval Electronics activities in Ottawa/Kanata and Pivotal Power in Halifax: communications, surveillance and signal-processing support in Ontario, and military power conversion, UPS, conditioning and distribution equipment in Nova Scotia, including engineering/testing/manufacturing services.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Leonardo DRS identifies Canadian Naval Electronics activities in Ottawa/Kanata and Pivotal Power in Halifax: communications, surveillance and signal-processing support in Ontario, and military power conversion, UPS, conditioning and distribution equipment in Nova Scotia, including engineering/testing/manufacturing services.
