Thank you very much, Minister.
Through “Strong, Secure, Engaged”, the government has committed to leveraging innovators to encourage innovation and accelerate the adoption of new ideas in the defence community.
I understand that the innovation for defence excellence and security initiative, better known as IDEaS, will do this by introducing flexible new approaches to stimulate innovation through a range of activities. These include competitions, contests, networks, and sandboxes to test field concepts.
I'm wondering if you could outline for the committee how this initiative is going to support the Canadian Armed Forces.