Canada

Canadian Great Lakes ship-repair and construction company operating yards in Hamilton, St. Catharines and Thunder Bay.

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada designs, builds and supports utility, regional and special-mission aircraft, including Twin Otter, Dash 8 and the Canadair amphibious firefighting family. Its Canadian manufacturing and sustainment business serves commercial operators and government customers worldwide.

Can-Dive is a British Columbia underwater contractor within ASI Group, combining commercial diving, marine construction, ROV inspection and atmospheric-diving services. Its work ranges from pipeline installation and repairs to docks, hydroelectric structures, salvage and survey documentation. Buyer records show a 2023 Sechelt outfall-remediation award and completed 2016 intake-screen repairs in Saskatoon; its catalogue names LBV200, Seaeye Falcon and Phantom HD2 ROVs for task-specific configurations.

Quaternion Aerospace is a Victoria aerospace engineering company developing Canadian satellite platforms and modular payloads for space and uncrewed-aircraft applications.

Aethera Technologies is a Halifax power-electronics company developing solid-state radio-frequency generators and custom RF systems. Its industrial APG equipment supplies controlled RF energy for dielectric heating, drying and curing. The offer includes adapting power electronics to the process load, installing and commissioning the system, and supporting controls, training and troubleshooting. The company also builds amplifiers for research and propulsion development. NC State’s March 2026 commissioning report provides a concrete customer example: four 50 kW amplifiers for plasma experiments, with engineers from Nova Scotia supporting commissioning. This is distinct from Aethera’s work on the power-processing units used in Ad Astra’s VASIMR propulsion ground programme. Aethera’s published background includes RF hardware, software and wireless engineering. Its practical relevance is the combination of high-power RF conversion with the controls, cooling, protection and load interface needed to make that power usable in a specific process or experiment.

UBC spin-off developing photonic packaging and interconnect technology for joining photonic chips, lasers, fibres, and other optical components.

Manitoba commercial-diving and marine contractor providing inspection-class ROV support, sonar imaging and surveys, underwater inspection, construction, repair, salvage, barriers, pipe and intake work across western Canada, northern Ontario and Arctic operating areas.

Federal innovation initiative that helps Canadian startups and small and medium businesses develop, test, and commercialize new technologies against public-sector operational needs through challenge funding and real-world prototype testing.

Canadian defence-electronics company serving sensor, radar and electronic-warfare technology markets.

Magellan Aerospace is a Canadian-headquartered integrated aerospace company that designs and manufactures aeroengine and aerostructure assemblies, rocket and satellite systems, military and space products, and provides repair and overhaul services.

Telesat is an Ottawa-headquartered satellite operator serving commercial and government customers through its existing geostationary business while building the Telesat Lightspeed low-Earth-orbit network. Lightspeed is designed around Ka-band communications and optical links between satellites, with ground landing stations, points of presence and customer network connections completing the service path. Government applications include Arctic communications, maritime and aeronautical connectivity, and beyond-line-of-sight command and information exchange. On August 4, 2026, Canada awarded Telesat LEO ULC a C$2.3 billion contract before tax for the Arctic military Ka-band component of the Enhanced Satellite Communication Project–Polar. The service is scheduled for 2028 and covers 65–90 degrees north. The award expanded the planned Lightspeed constellation from 156 to 225 satellites, including 69 additional satellites from MDA Space. Two five-year options are valued at C$214 million and C$218 million. Terminals, ground systems, training and end-to-end integration require a separate agreement; the MDA-led UHF/X-band component is a different procurement. Telesat is developing the partner interfaces needed to turn that network into usable services. Its September 22, 2026 letter of intent with Kongsberg concerns evaluating Lightspeed integration into defence platforms and architectures. A separate September 1 collaboration between Telesat Government Solutions and Cailabs concerns optical-connectivity studies and demonstrations. Both add integration work around the contracted network; neither identifies an accepted combined platform or a new operational service.