Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development

17 agreements worth $7,080,517 under this program name at National Defence.

Total agreement value: $7.1M
$7,080,517
Agreements: 17
Recipients: 16
distinct names
Largest agreement: $1.0M
Unity Health Toronto

By fiscal year

2024-25$7.1M
2025-26–
2026-27–

By province

Ontario$5.6M78.9%
Quebec$1.5M20.8%
Alberta$25K0.4%

Largest agreements

#	Agreement	Value
1	Bringing Mental Readiness into the Digital Age Unity Health Toronto · Toronto, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2025-01-07 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-RD-024 · data	$1.0M $1,000,000
2	SWARMSCAN Thales Canada Inc. · Ottawa, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-11-04 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q3-CD1-028 · data	$1.0M $1,000,000
3	SWARMSCAN Thales Canada Inc. · Ottawa, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-11-04 Government record 018-2025-2026-Q3-06128 · data	$1.0M $1,000,000
4	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Polarimetric Ground Penetrating Radar Agile Electromagnetics Inc. · Ottawa, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-11-15 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q3-CD1-048 · data	$1000K $999,895
5	Mine Defeat by Air Blast 1362339-4 · Montréal, QC Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-10-24 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q3-CD1-042 · data	$1000K $999,878
6	Uncrewed Multi-Platform Sensor Fusion Minefield Detection Systems FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC. · Waterloo, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-11-07 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q3-CD1-033 · data	$973K $972,659
7	Defensive Autonomous Swarm Hunt Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. · Ottawa, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-11-01 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q3-CD2-009 · data	$488K $487,500
8	Powerful Anti-Drone Ammunition Compatible with M2 Machine Gun General Dynamics - Ordnance and Tactical Systems - Canada · Repentigny, QC Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Contribution, starts 2024-10-03 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q3-CD2-008 · data	$396K $395,585
9	Forecasting Accurately in Space and Time Université de Montréal · Montréal, QC Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-18 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-050 · data	$25K $25,000
10	Predictive Analytic and Trustworthy AI software Complex Systems Inc. · Calgary, AB Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-11 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-034 · data	$25K $25,000
11	Causally-Informed Spatiotemporal Modeling for Interpretable Fatality Forecasting Mindlab Inc. · Markham, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-11 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-033 · data	$25K $25,000
12	Human-Centric Conflict Forecasting: Integrating Event Graphs Construction and Reasoning Narratives for Actionable Insights Queen's University \| Université Queen's · Kingston, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-25 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-036 · data	$25K $25,000
13	Leveraging Global Transformer-Based Models and Weather Prediction for Forecasting Emerging Threats Erode AI · Guelph, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-11 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-045 · data	$25K $25,000
14	Intelligible Scenarios Generated with Foundational models Integrating Local and Global Explanations of Spatio-Temporal Forecasts Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal · Montréal, QC Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-21 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-047 · data	$25K $25,000
15	A Comprehensive Approach to Forecasting Conflict Violence Fatalities Combining Geographically Weighted Regression and Extreme Gradient Boosting Decision Tree The University of Western Ontario \| L’Université Western Ontario · London, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-11 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-019 · data	$25K $25,000
16	Explainable AI and Machine Learning-based Methodologies for Forecasting Emerging Global Threats Concordia University \| Université Concordia · Montréal, QC Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-21 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-016 · data	$25K $25,000
17	Dynamic Peace: Time-Spatial Conflict Forecasting with Machine Learning University of Ottawa \| Université d'Ottawa · Ottawa, ON Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Concept Development · Grant, starts 2025-03-18 Government record 018-2024-2025-Q4-CO2-049 · data	$25K $25,000

Largest recipients

Individuals and aggregate entries are not ranked.

Thales Canada Inc.2 agreements$2.0M28.2%
Unity Health Toronto1 agreement$1.0M14.1%
Agile Electromagnetics Inc.1 agreement$1000K14.1%
1362339-41 agreement$1000K14.1%
FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC.1 agreement$973K13.7%
Lockheed Martin Canada Inc.1 agreement$488K6.9%
General Dynamics - Ordnance and Tactical Systems - Canada1 agreement$396K5.6%
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal1 agreement$25K0.4%
Complex Systems Inc.1 agreement$25K0.4%
Concordia University1 agreement$25K0.4%
Erode AI1 agreement$25K0.4%
Mindlab Inc.1 agreement$25K0.4%
Queen's University1 agreement$25K0.4%
The University of Western Ontario1 agreement$25K0.4%
Université de Montréal1 agreement$25K0.4%
University of Ottawa1 agreement$25K0.4%