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Mission area and Use Case
Detection, survey, characterization, and persistent awareness for undersea environments and infrastructure.
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Company
Vancouver, British Columbia
VodaSafe Inc., operating as AquaEye, is a Vancouver technology company developing intelligent sonar and coordination tools for water-search, rescue and recovery operations.
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10 technologies are connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Arctic Rapid-Deployment ROV Survey Operations, Envoy long-endurance autonomous underwater vehicle, Explorer AUV.
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ROV-mounted sonar and AI-supported subsurface search could support underwater sensing and recovery tasks; the mapping is derived and not a statement of CAF or RCN adoption.
Company
Victoria, British Columbia
AML Oceanographic builds sensors, instruments and deployment systems for measuring the water column. Its X2change heads carry their own calibration and move between compatible instruments, allowing a survey team to change measurements without replacing the entire package. The moving-vessel profiler family adds the winch, cable and control system needed to gather profiles while a vessel remains underway. These are distinct equipment choices: sensor configuration, vessel speed, cable length and deployment depth determine what a survey installation can measure.
AML sound-speed measurements can inform the environmental-input layer of underwater sensing. A closed 2025 DND harbour DCLT challenge explicitly uses sound-speed profiles, while the NOAA-hosted survey report demonstrates AML profiling in practice. This derived connection does not supply the challenge's tracking algorithms or establish eligibility, participation or defence acceptance; verify the required sensor accuracy, update rate and interface against the intended processing chain.
Company
Debert, Nova Scotia
Ashored Innovations is a Nova Scotia ocean-technology company developing acoustic rope-on-command fishing gear, subsea buoy-containment hardware and gear-tracking software for safer, data-backed fixed-gear fisheries.
The described underwater measurement, inspection or support function can contribute to undersea characterization; this derived fit does not establish defence adoption.
Company
Stoney Creek, Ontario
ASI Group is an Ontario underwater engineering, inspection and survey company operating a large fleet of configurable ROVs for rapid-response ship, dam, tunnel, pipeline, port and submerged-infrastructure work.
The described underwater measurement, inspection or support function can contribute to undersea characterization; this derived fit does not establish defence adoption.
Company
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Atlantic Hardchrome is a Dartmouth industrial manufacturer providing machining, grinding, CNC work, repair, plating and inspection services for aerospace, defence and other complex industrial components.
Submarine-control-component product planning may support undersea-platform sustainment; reviewed evidence does not establish an underwater ISR measurement or characterization function.
Company
Herring Cove, Nova Scotia
Aurora ROV Systems Ltd. is a Herring Cove, Nova Scotia underwater robotics distributor listed by Strategic Robotic Systems as its Canadian FUSION channel. Manufacturer configuration and upgrade documents describe the products available for enquiry; Canadian stock and delivery terms require confirmation.
Distribution and support of advanced ROV systems could enable underwater inspection and sensing missions, but this is a derived fit and does not establish a current defence deployment.
Company
Ottawa, Ontario
Babcock Canada combines naval engineering and through-life support with Canadian aviation services and systems integration. It is Babcock International Group's Ottawa-headquartered subsidiary and the Victoria-class submarine in-service-support prime. Its portfolio includes strategic-radio control, digital asset support, immersive training, land-vehicle engineering and Joint Support Ship magazine racks. In aviation, it operates and maintains Manitoba's wildfire fleet and provisions and supports AW169 helicopters under an Ascent subcontract for British Columbia's air-ambulance service.
Sustaining and integrating a crewed submarine can enable undersea operations relevant to the published Underwater ISR context. This is an enabling-platform read; no sensor performance, containerized ASW configuration or uncrewed deployment is established.
Company
Sidney, British Columbia
Camcor Diving Services is a commercial diving company based in Sidney, British Columbia, serving aquaculture and marine infrastructure around Vancouver Island. Its work includes fish-farm net maintenance, diver-operated pressure washing, vessel and barge inspection, underwater construction and hydrographic surveys. The company also lists a light inspection-class remotely operated vehicle for underwater inspections. The service catalogue gives concrete methods: ultrasonic thickness testing and inspection of propellers, sea chests and anodes; inspection of dock mooring lines, chains and shackles; underwater welding and hydraulic cutting or drilling; and placement or location of power and fibre-optic cables. These are the broader diving services, with the ROV described separately as an inspection tool. Camcor identifies Cory Beaudry as founder and Kimberlee Lott as CEO, and says its divers hold surface-supply and scuba certifications.
Light ROV inspection could contribute visual observations to undersea characterization. RCN reporting independently establishes underwater search and survey activity; Camcor’s sensor configuration, naval adoption and acceptance for a defence task remain unverified.
Company
Foxboro, Ontario
Canadian Underwater Inspection Services (CUIS) is a Foxboro, Ontario service contractor combining remotely operated vehicles, sonar and commercial divers for underwater inspection and survey work. It also offers underwater construction, confined-space access, salvage and vessel support. Named infrastructure work includes inspection input for Collingwood Terminals and diving as a subconsultant on MTO bridge and culvert inspections.
ROV imagery and sonar survey services can contribute to detection, survey and characterization of underwater infrastructure. The demonstrated civilian inspection role supports this derived fit; it does not establish persistent surveillance, defence adoption or an autonomous mission capability.
Company
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Canpac Marine Services is a North Vancouver marine contractor combining remotely operated vehicles, commercial divers, vessels and submarine cable equipment. Its work spans underwater inspection and scientific intervention, cable installation and burial, marine construction and salvage. Ocean Networks Canada confirms completed observatory work using Canpac Valour and Mantis in 2026; Quintillion identifies Valkyrie crews’ completed cable burial near Oliktok Point in Alaska. These projects establish delivered services in addition to Canpac’s advertised fleet.
ROV imaging, sonar and instrument deployment support survey and characterization of undersea environments and infrastructure. This is a derived functional alignment from civilian deployment and specified sensors, not evidence of military ISR acceptance.
Company
Burnaby, British Columbia
Cellula Robotics is a privately owned subsea robotics and engineering company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia. It develops configurable autonomous underwater vehicles, vessel-signature measurement systems and cableless seabed sensing networks, alongside custom engineering, integration, testing and support. Its work spans defence research and prototypes, offshore inspection and intervention, and marine environmental monitoring. Vehicle performance, payload integration and operational acceptance depend on the specific configuration and programme.
Configurable underwater survey, inspection and sensor payloads can support persistent undersea characterization and infrastructure awareness. Defence adoption and operational acceptance depend on the actual payload and buyer programme.
Seabed acoustic/environmental nodes and local alerts can contribute to persistent undersea characterization and infrastructure awareness. The public offer does not establish classified detection performance or accepted military deployment.
Company
Meaford, Ontario
CompleteWaters is a Meaford marine-robotics operator providing portable ROV, USV, water-quality, sediment-sampling and boat services across Canada, including deployments in Arctic conditions.
CompleteWaters's ROV, underwater-sensing, inspection or mission-support capability could improve rapid collection and interpretation of public-source subsea observations.
Company
Creston, British Columbia
Darkwater Exploration is the ROV and underwater-video-inspection division of EnviroMarine Ltd., serving Western Canada from Creston, British Columbia.
Portable ROV, imaging-sonar and video-inspection services could support localized underwater assessment and recovery tasks; mission fit is derived and no defence customer is asserted.
Company
Rimouski, Quebec
Devocean is a Quebec marine-technology company developing on-demand recoverable buoy systems, embedded ocean electronics and acoustic release mechanisms for field-deployed underwater sensing and data recovery.
Devocean's documented capability could supply a distinct sensing, processing, integration, deployment or sustainment layer for a containerized anti-submarine-warfare system; this is an analyst-derived fit, not evidence of a specific procurement role.
Company
Toronto, Ontario
DroneBoy is a Toronto-area commercial-drone company that includes remotely operated underwater vehicle inspection in its industrial imaging, mapping and remote-inspection service portfolio.
Underwater drone imagery and inspection could support assessment of submerged structures and waterway assets; this is a derived mission fit and not a defence-customer claim.
Company
Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian naval and commercial shipbuilding design partner that turns vessel concepts into production-ready digital models, engineering information, and coordinated data for construction and lifecycle support.
Production-ready vessel design and digital coordination can support integration of sensors, payloads, and mission systems on naval platforms, subject to project-specific scope.
Company
Montreal, Quebec
Groupe Ortam Inc. is a Montreal-headquartered environmental, engineering and construction-services company that offers aerial and underwater drone inspection services in Quebec and Ontario.
Underwater drone inspection and three-dimensional data capture could contribute to submerged-infrastructure assessment; the mission fit is derived and not evidence of a defence engagement.
Company
Edmonton, Alberta
Industrial Recon is an Alberta industrial-inspection company that provides UAV and ROV inspection services, including underwater-drone operators and crews for Western Canadian projects.
Commercial underwater-drone operators could provide localized inspection capability for submerged industrial assets; the mapping is derived and no government customer or defence adoption is asserted.
7 technologies are connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Envoy long-endurance autonomous underwater vehicle, Explorer AUV, KATFISH Towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar.
Inspect the released need5 technologies are connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Custom underwater acoustic sensors and systems, Sea Searcher Hull-Mounted Sonar & Transducers, Secure defence-electronics manufacturing.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Underwater acoustic defence systems and analytics.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Underwater acoustic defence systems and analytics.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Arctic Rapid-Deployment ROV Survey Operations.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Submarine-control component manufacturing and repair.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Underwater acoustic defence systems and analytics.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Underwater acoustic defence systems and analytics.
Inspect the released need1 technology is connected to both records through separate human review.
Established by Underwater acoustic defence systems and analytics.
Inspect the released needA practical guide to the public infrastructure, logistics, partnership, and sustainment needs shaping Canadian Arctic defence operations.
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