Calian launches Northstar Defence Lab at Invest Ottawa’s Area X.O to accelerate defence interoperability R&D

PUBT · 1d ago
Calian launches Northstar Defence Lab at Invest Ottawa’s Area X.O to accelerate defence interoperability R&D
  • Calian launched the Northstar Defence Lab at Invest Ottawa’s Area X.O to accelerate defence interoperability across legacy, emerging systems.
  • Facility will integrate, orchestrate, test, validate, scale technologies in a persistent Canadian mission-orchestration environment.
  • Lab is powered by Calian ATHORA, a sovereign system-of-systems interoperability platform aimed at faster capability development-to-deployment.
  • Northstar is the first site in a planned nationwide lab network tied to an initial $100 million push to accelerate Canadian C5ISRT capabilities.
  • Project targets faster adoption of integrated mission capabilities, with emphasis on operational readiness, Arctic sovereignty, national security.


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