NCIA focuses more on communications and informatics projects. Their projects tend to be very large. Some Canadian companies are capable of doing that, and some of them have been very successful—CGI and MDA, for instance. However, Canada produces an exceptionally broad range of goods and services. That broader range of goods and services, which also tend to be, by and large, of smaller dollar value, are more suited to the Canadian environment, and that seems to be where Canadian companies have elected to participate more.
On March 22nd, 2018. See this statement in context.