It's another fantastic question.
I've been fortunate over the last couple of months to be involved in Operation Nanook-Nunalivut on three different stretches of what has been an epic Canadian Armed Forces operation led by rangers, going from Inuvik in the western Arctic across the Arctic Ocean coast, then turning, doing a pivot, and going down the Kivalliq coast and western Hudson Bay, and ending up in Churchill. Along the way, rangers were very much involved in identifying equipment that would be fit to purpose for this particular activity. They've derived a lot of lessons observed that hopefully will be translated into lessons learned about how to conduct agile operations by a small group.
When I was in Cambridge Bay, Ikaluktutiak, in the Kitikmeot region, I was very pleased to see university professors and people from Defence Research and Development Canada, DRDC, testing some new systems, testing different types of equipment and bringing them to the north, working with rangers to ground truth whether they are actually appropriate.
I definitely see opportunities going forward for the rangers and other northern experts based in the north to be more heavily involved in the process of identifying what is needed and of testing and trialling the different proposed solutions.