Canadian small-arms manufacturer and support provider serving military and law-enforcement users.
Operating context
Colt Canada is an established Canadian small-arms manufacturer and support supplier. The Canadian Modular Assault Rifle agreement announced in March 2026 creates a phased domestic production and support workload:30,000 General Service rifles in the first three years, with engineering and integration support included. The government's stated commitment is at least 80% Canadian content. Subsequent General Service and Full Spectrum quantities are options, so the agreement's maximum 65,402 units should not be treated as firm delivered volume.
Canadian footprint
Colt Canada publishes an operating presence in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and its current public record anchors Military small-arms production and support to that Canadian organization.
Kitchener, Ontario is the published city-level context for Colt Canada. It does not imply a street address or exact facility location.
Colt Canada's CMAR programme provides a substantial phased Canadian small-arms manufacturing and support workload. The immediate industrial opportunity sits within phase1 delivery and domestic content, while later quantities remain contractual options.
Interpretation of the public record. Not qualification, endorsement or evidence of buyer interest.
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.
Evidence of maturity
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.
Commercial availability
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.
Core features
Rifle, carbine and machine-gun manufacturing portfolio
Operator and maintainer training and product support
Canada's March 19, 2026 CMAR announcement assigns approximatelyCAD307 million including tax to phase 1 for 30,000 General Service rifles over three years. Optional phase 2, starting in year 4, provides for19,207 additional General Service and 16,195 Full Spectrum rifles plus associated equipment.
Colt Canada currently presents Military small-arms production and support as part of its public commercial offering.
Questions for a first conversation
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Which CMAR phase1 Canadian supply-chain packages are committed, and what conditions govern exercise of phase2?
The March19 date is the public announcement; optional quantities and maximum agreement value are not completed deliveries.
Original sources 3 linked records
These records support the organization, its owned capabilities and their reviewed connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Colt Canada operates from Kitchener, Ontario, with a public mandate centred on Military small-arms production and support; public sources do not establish every customer, configuration or operational outcome.
Supports: Profile · profileData.portfolioScope
Colt Canada's documented portfolio in this dossier is bounded to Military small-arms production and support and the source-backed functions listed below.
Supports: Profile · executive relevance summary
Source location: executiveRelevanceSummary
Colt Canada's official site identifies its Canadian small-arms manufacturing, engineering and support activities.
Supports: Profile · operating context
Colt Canada's official site identifies its Canadian small-arms manufacturing, engineering and support activities.
Supports: Profile · commercial status
Colt Canada currently presents Military small-arms production and support as part of its public commercial offering.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · core features
Third- and fourth-line repair and overhaul support
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · commercial availability
Colt Canada currently presents Military small-arms production and support through its official public capability surface.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · core features
Rifle, carbine and machine-gun manufacturing
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · technicaldomainslugs
True North Map maps Military small-arms production and support to advanced manufacturing and integration from its documented technology functions.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · defence applications
Canadian Modular Assault Rifle fielding
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · capability type
Source-bounded strategic technology capability
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · defence applications
Infantry small-arms sustainment
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · name
Military small-arms production and support
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · technical tags
True North Map applies the small-arms tag from Colt Canada's documented capability functions.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · summary
Manufactures service rifles, carbines and machine guns and provides depot-level repair and overhaul support.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · technical tags
True North Map applies the land-systems tag from Colt Canada's documented capability functions.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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.
Colt Canada publishes an operating presence in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and its current public record anchors Military small-arms production and support to that Canadian organization.
Supports: Profile · organization categories
True North Map applies the commercial company category to Colt Canada from its documented mandate and source-bounded operating evidence.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
Colt Canada publishes Ontario as its Canadian province or territory.
Supports: Profile · website url
https://www.coltcanada.com/ is the canonical official website used by Colt Canada.
Supports: Profile · legal name
Colt Canada Corporation is the legal name supported by the cited public record.
Supports: Profile · entity kind
True North Map classifies Colt Canada as a company from its documented legal or institutional role.
Supports: Profile · dual use posture
Military small-arms production and support has documented civilian or industrial applications and a bounded potential relevance to Canadian defence, security or strategic-infrastructure needs.
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
Supports: Profile · organization categories
True North Map applies the dual use category to Colt Canada from its documented mandate and source-bounded operating evidence.
Supports: Profile · current activity
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
Supports: Profile · current activity as of
Defence Investment Agency, Government of Canada's dated record anchors this activity to 2026-03-19.
Supports: Profile · operating context
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
Parent-company ownership and the Canadian operating boundary require explicit verification. The first conversation should therefore separate current offer, development evidence and accepted operational use.
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
Supports: Profile · description
True North Map derives this executive description for Colt Canada from the official identity and technical records together with Defence Investment Agency, Government of Canada's corroborating evidence.
Supports: Profile · executive relevance summary
Source location: executiveRelevanceSummary
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
Canada announced a CMAR agreement with Colt for up to65,402 rifles. Phase1 covers30,000 General Service rifles over three years for aboutCAD307million including tax; further quantities are optional.
True North Map derives a first-conversation question about Military small-arms production and support configuration and accepted outcomes from the documented maturity boundary.
Supports: Profile · current activity
Awarded a contract for up to 65,402 Canadian Modular Assault Rifle systems.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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.
Supports: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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: Military small-arms production and support · 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.
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