Public demand signal · National Defence

Sovereign digital systems and high-assurance communications

The Canadian Defence Industrial Strategy and related official implementation sources identify sovereign digital systems, ai, quantum and high-assurance communications as a current Canadian defence-industrial demand signal. Canada can design, integrate, secure, update and sustain trusted digital systems, AI, quantum communications and high-assurance C2 across defence platforms and operational environments without losing access to critical IP or software updates.

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What needs to change

CAF operations and defence platforms increasingly depend on secure cloud, AI, quantum technologies, integrated command-and-control, communications and high-assurance equipment whose software, data and intellectual property must remain supportable and sovereignly controlled.

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What success looks like

Canada can design, integrate, secure, update and sustain trusted digital systems, AI, quantum communications and high-assurance C2 across defence platforms and operational environments without losing access to critical IP or software updates.

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Organizations with technology that may be relevant

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BlackBerry Secure communications and embedded software

Moderate public evidence

Secure communications and embedded software may help teams working on Sovereign digital systems and high-assurance communications by contributing to resilient communications and command, cyber and digital operations, and protection and survivability.

What supports this assessment

Security, Sovereignty and Prosperity: Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy (opens in a new tab)
Department of National Defence · official policy
CAF operations and defence platforms increasingly depend on secure cloud, AI, quantum technologies, integrated command-and-control, communications and high-assurance equipment whose software, data and intellectual property must remain supportable and sovereignly controlled.
BlackBerry official capability profile (opens in a new tab)
BlackBerry · official company product
The official capability material supports the named Secure communications and embedded software offering and the bounded operational description prepared for reviewer consideration.

Evidence limits

An empty result means the research is incomplete, not that Canada lacks relevant technology.
Public statements do not establish procurement timing, budgets, eligibility, or endorsement.
Every future assessment must remain source-linked and open to editorial review.

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Where this defence need comes from

Publisher: National Defence
Signal type: strategic policy
Commitment: directional
Document: Sovereign digital systems, AI, quantum and high-assurance communications
Published: 2026-02-17

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CAF operations and defence platforms increasingly depend on secure cloud, AI, quantum technologies, integrated command-and-control, communications and high-assurance equipment whose software, data and intellectual property must remain supportable and sovereignly controlled.

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What supports this defence need

Security, Sovereignty and Prosperity: Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy (opens in a new tab)
Department of National Defence · official policy
Reviewer synthesis of the public end state: Canada can design, integrate, secure, update and sustain trusted digital systems, AI, quantum communications and high-assurance C2 across defence platforms and operational environments without losing access to critical IP or software updates.

Defence Signals

Developments connected to this Defence need

From ore to operational effect

Canada's defence capacity can be read from the ground up. McIlvenna Bay has produced its first copper, zinc and pyrite concentrates; Bombardier has agreed to absorb a 750-person Mississauga aerostructures operation; and Canadian firms and innovation hubs are joining transmission, integration, testing and commercialization. Farther along the chain, NATO DIANA has selected an adoption-focused cohort, DRDC has defined the real operating conditions for Arctic drones, MAPLE STRIKE has exercised the command infrastructure behind airpower, and the U.S. Army has placed its first production contract for a high-energy laser. Together, the records show that capability gains value at the handoff between inputs, skilled production, integrated systems, adoption support, explicit requirements, exercised operations and funded production. The evidence does not establish that every Canadian input will reach a defence program, that the announced collaborations will produce contracts, or that systems entering production have completed operational fielding. The practical question is narrower: which handoffs can Canadian organizations own, and what proof does each next user need?

Connected item: MAPLE STRIKE exposes the network behind airpower

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From ore to operational effectExplicit Defence need record link · MAPLE STRIKE exposes the network behind airpower

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Public demand signal · National Defence

Sovereign digital systems and high-assurance communications

Read the original source

Source-backed fact

What needs to change

Source-backed fact

What success looks like

1 reviewed assessment

Organizations with technology that may be relevant

Each connection pairs the organization-specific reason it may be relevant with the public evidence that supports it.

BlackBerry Secure communications and embedded software

Moderate public evidence

What supports this assessment

Security, Sovereignty and Prosperity: Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy (opens in a new tab)
Department of National Defence · official policy
CAF operations and defence platforms increasingly depend on secure cloud, AI, quantum technologies, integrated command-and-control, communications and high-assurance equipment whose software, data and intellectual property must remain supportable and sovereignly controlled.
BlackBerry official capability profile (opens in a new tab)
BlackBerry · official company product
The official capability material supports the named Secure communications and embedded software offering and the bounded operational description prepared for reviewer consideration.

Evidence limits

An empty result means the research is incomplete, not that Canada lacks relevant technology.
Public statements do not establish procurement timing, budgets, eligibility, or endorsement.
Every future assessment must remain source-linked and open to editorial review.

Source-backed fact

Where this defence need comes from

Publisher: National Defence
Signal type: strategic policy
Commitment: directional
Document: Sovereign digital systems, AI, quantum and high-assurance communications
Published: 2026-02-17

Relevant passage · requirements.sovereign-digital-systems-and-high-assurance-communications.problemStatement

CAF operations and defence platforms increasingly depend on secure cloud, AI, quantum technologies, integrated command-and-control, communications and high-assurance equipment whose software, data and intellectual property must remain supportable and sovereignly controlled.

Read the public record

What supports this defence need

Security, Sovereignty and Prosperity: Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy (opens in a new tab)
Department of National Defence · official policy
Reviewer synthesis of the public end state: Canada can design, integrate, secure, update and sustain trusted digital systems, AI, quantum communications and high-assurance C2 across defence platforms and operational environments without losing access to critical IP or software updates.

Defence Signals

Developments connected to this Defence need

From ore to operational effect

Connected item: MAPLE STRIKE exposes the network behind airpower

Explicit Defence need record link

Read the Defence Signal

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Continue from the defence need into the evidence graph

Follow reviewed organization connections, Mission areas derived through named capabilities, the focused map, and direct or clearly labelled derived editorial paths.

Organizations

Profiles that provide the strongest reviewed or discovery-led continuation.

Explore BlackBerry's organization profileConnected through Secure communications and embedded software.

Mission and ecosystem paths

Follow reviewed needs, mission areas, technologies, programs, domains, regions, or focused map views.

Signals and briefs

Continue into connected editorial intelligence; each link identifies whether the path is explicit or derived.

From ore to operational effectExplicit Defence need record link · MAPLE STRIKE exposes the network behind airpower

Public-source alignment only. This is not procurement eligibility, endorsement, customer interest, or a classified requirement.

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Carry the defence need into a practical search.

Open the mapped view, inspect potentially relevant organizations, and save records and evidence to a private Shortlist.

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What needs to change

What success looks like

Organizations with technology that may be relevant

Evidence limits

Developments connected to this Defence need

From ore to operational effect

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Organizations

Mission and ecosystem paths

Signals and briefs

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What needs to change

What success looks like

Organizations with technology that may be relevant

Evidence limits

Developments connected to this Defence need

From ore to operational effect

Continue from the defence need into the evidence graph

Organizations

Mission and ecosystem paths

Signals and briefs

Carry the defence need into a practical search.

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