Industry committee  There is the question of national security, to begin with. As I said earlier, most of the research that is done by the 1,300 people in my organization is focused more on classified and sensitive research areas, where it's not easy to share with other countries, so there is a nati

Industry committee  The danger in setting up that policy would be that, Canada being a reasonably small player on the international scene, it would restrict access to technologies that are game-changers for the Canadian Forces, so we would need to balance—

Industry committee  We're developing our capacities to be able to equip and, from my perspective and my mandate, we're developing those capacities to provide the Canadian Armed Forces, including the navy, with cutting-edge technologies. In terms of bringing foreign technologies to Canada, I'll have

Industry committee  I can take a first shot at the answer on this one. I would agree that we need to be better at reaching out to small technology companies, and I'd say academia as well. In the last two rounds of calls for proposals, we have done business differently. We've changed our business mo

Industry committee  Our first choice is to work with Canadian partners. We spend in Canada approximately $3 billion on research and development in our universities. This is a huge investment made by the Government of Canada. If we can leverage the knowledge that exists in our universities and our

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. It is a good question. There are two elements. There are the platforms themselves—the ship, the steel, if you wish. There are also all the technology components that go on the ship: sensor systems, radar systems, fire control systems, so on and so for

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I can't answer that question. I'm responsible at National Defence for science and technology, so I don't have any dealings with that committee.

Industry committee  I'll ask for my colleagues to provide answers to that question. Being in charge of science and technology, I am at arm's length, to some extent, with procurement, because the advice we provide informs decision-makers on the right choices for being smart buyers, if I can use that

Industry committee  Absolutely. My role is to inform the military partners—the Canadian Armed Forces, the various environments, army, navy, air force, SOFCOM, and so on—of new technology developments that might have an impact on their military capabilities. For example, if there's a new threat of

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. As I said in my opening comments, my role is to support innovation in science and technology in the Department of National Defence. It is to provide the Canadian Forces with the best technologies. They need a tactical advantage, a technological advan

Industry committee  Again, we don't have an economic mission, but what we do, because of our science mission, is reduce the risk of companies doing research to develop solutions. It is our standard policy to leave the intellectual property with the companies that have invested in research and develo

Industry committee  I shall keep it short, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the invitation to appear. I hope that the information I bring will be useful to your deliberations. I'm assistant deputy minister for science and technology at the Department of National Defence. My role is to provide the Canadia

Industry committee  I do as well.

National Defence committee  The constant pressure and uncertainty or even constant stress can contribute to potential mental health problems. We have worked very hard, with our allies in particular, to successfully detect and diffuse more IEDs in theatres of operations. Once again, that problem is very dif

National Defence committee  We clearly work with intelligence services to identify new threats and new weapons deployed in various parts of the world. The co-operation between the intelligence services of the five partners is extremely positive. They share the information so that we can develop solutions be