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NATO defence technology exercise concludes in Nova Scotia
NATO’s year-long Innovation Continuum ended with a four-day event in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
The initiative brings military, government, industry, academic and investment participants together to connect defence needs with technologies under development.
It is run by Allied Command Transformation, a NATO agency focused on helping move technology from development toward use.
At the Dartmouth event, companies demonstrated surveillance and target-detection technologies as part of work on Arctic monitoring.
The exercise also addressed priorities such as countering drones, electronic warfare, cognitive warfare and cyber resilience.
About 100 companies took part in the October event, and 30 per cent were Canadian.
The goal is to help develop useful technologies and bring them closer to commercialization, but no further steps were specified.
NATO’s year-long Innovation Continuum concluded with a final event in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
The four-day exercise brought military and industry participants together to assess requirements for developing defence technologies.
The initiative aims to connect operational needs with technologies being developed by companies and help move useful products toward commercialization.
About 100 companies took part in the October exercise, and 30 per cent were Canadian.
The program’s priorities included Arctic surveillance, counterdrone technologies, electronic warfare, cognitive warfare and cyber resilience.
- Who
- NATO military and industry participants, alongside companies and other stakeholders, took part.
- What
- The final event of NATO’s year-long Innovation Continuum assessed requirements for developing military technologies.
- When
- The final event took place in early October; the initiative’s four-day working period concluded this year.
- Where
- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, including COVE.
- Why
- The initiative aims to connect military needs with emerging technologies and help move useful products toward commercialization.
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Getting those companies together, giving them a challenge and letting them solve the problem amongst themselves
Cove’s real mission is focused on commercialization.
The first working period of the year’s cohort was held in Bulgaria.
The second working period was held in Poland.
The final two in-person working periods took place in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
NATO’s year-long Innovation Continuum concluded with its final event in Dartmouth.
- Exercise
- NATO Innovation Continuum
- Final event
- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
- Participating companies
- 100
- Canadian share of companies
- 30 per cent
- Working period
- Four days
- Priority areas
- Arctic surveillance, counterdrone technologies, electronic warfare, cognitive warfare and cyber resilience
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