Ontario

Mission Control develops space-operations software and onboard AI tools, with Spacefarer AI deployment support, the Persistence orbital testbed and Canadian lunar-rover concept work.

Inspect hazardous underwater spaces while operators stay at a safer distance. Deep Trekker builds portable, battery-powered ROVs in Ontario for reconnaissance, security, inspection, and public-safety work.

Canadian radio-frequency and microwave technology company developing radar and communications subsystems for aerospace, defence and space platforms.

Canadian cybersecurity company providing managed detection and response technology and services.

Arcanus Aerial Systems is a Toronto supplier building a partner-based portfolio of ISR, counter-UAS and cargo aircraft. It markets AB516e, AE401 and AC5250 systems and is establishing Canadian manufacturing and integration routes through partner agreements.

Aerial Evolution Association of Canada is the national not-for-profit industry association for remotely piloted and uncrewed aerial systems, connecting operators, manufacturers, researchers, regulators and end users.

Early-stage venture-capital firm investing in enterprise artificial-intelligence companies and helping founders progress toward product-market fit across Canada and the United States.

Cybeats provides software-bill-of-materials management and software supply-chain intelligence from Toronto. SBOM Studio serves software producers, while SBOM Consumer helps buyers monitor the software supplied to their organizations.

Allen-Vanguard is an Ottawa-headquartered electronic-warfare company providing RF countermeasures for radio-controlled explosive devices and counter-drone protection. Its portfolio separates vehicle and fixed-site equipment from man-portable systems, and includes integration, operator training, threat updates and field maintenance. EQUINOX NG and the 3XXX family address vehicle or site installations; SCORPION serves the portable role; ANCILE provides an RF counter-UAS effector. The SECURIS trailer adds partner-supplied detection and identification equipment around ANCILE, illustrating the difference between an effector and a complete detect-and-defeat system. Company announcements describe a February 2026 South American order for EQUINOX NG and SCORPION 2 and June contracts for 3XXX and SCORPION 2 in two unnamed African nations, with training and support. The Canadian and UK companies entered receivership in September, making continuity of those services a material consideration alongside the technical portfolio.

Twenty20 Insight provides a Canadian route to defence equipment and the work needed to put it into service. The Ottawa company describes sales and distribution, defence consulting and contract project management across targeting, fire control, counter-drone systems, thermal imaging and tactical radar. Its role depends on the product. It is Vectronix Shooting Solutions’ Canadian commercial distributor for VECTOR X. For the UK-designed and UK-built XRC RHINO ground vehicle, the September 2026 government backgrounder identifies a Canadian service role spanning systems engineering, configuration management, training, documentation and sustainment.

Qoherent develops software and engineering tools for applying machine learning to radio signals and software-defined communications. Its work connects the practical stages of an RF application: generating or recording signal data, organizing datasets, training and evaluating models, and integrating inference into radio equipment. RIA Toolkit supplies Python libraries for this workflow; RIA Hub adds a collaborative environment for datasets, code, packages and experiment development. RIA RAN applies that approach to open 5G radio access networks. The documented ESA project places Qoherent's inference engine alongside the distributed-unit processor in a modified srsRAN architecture, with USRP radios, ARM or x86 computing and an open5GS core. The objective is to adapt radio-resource assignment using local inference. This is an integration component within a wider radio network, whose behaviour also depends on the scheduler, radio hardware, core network and deployment configuration. The company also participates in NATO DIANA's 2026 cohort with an adaptive 5G payload for mobile ad hoc networking. That programme describes a related development direction; it does not establish that the DIANA payload and the ESA non-terrestrial-network configuration are the same deliverable.