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The Sandbox event,

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hosted by the Innovation for Defence
Excellence and Security program

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or IDEaS, provides a unique opportunity
for selected innovators to demonstrate

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and test their cutting-edge technology
in a real-world environment

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while gaining valuable feedback
from Department of National Defence

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and Canadian Armed Forces experts,
and other potential safety

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and security end users.

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IDEaS is pleased to announce
it has selected the innovators who will

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participate in the third iteration
of its counter-drone Sandbox in 2024.

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It's important
to be able to find some of those solutions

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to the problems
that the Canadian Armed Forces are facing.

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And certainly, UAS is a problem
that the Canadian Armed Forces are facing.

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How do we defend ourselves?
How do we detect them?

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So I think our role is really to
to make sure that we

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can put together an event like this,
bringing some of those innovators

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in an area where they can
basically have free range

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if you wish, to show us what
what they got basically.

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And this is really our role
in terms of supporting innovation

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for the Canadian Armed Forces as a
research and development establishment.

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This is a very good opportunity
for us actually

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to come into a different country
and to experience

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a different environment
and the range as well.

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And we are able to do our testing in a short period actually, because we have got all the facilities that is required.

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Test activities, having a clear

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blue sky, having our line of sight
all over

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and this opportunity is really helping us
to improve the system.

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Till now we have been testing
a lot of things that we couldn't test

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in our range and finding our limitations,
which will help us to improve our system.

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Congratulations
to the innovators selected!

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We look forward to welcoming you
to Suffield, Alberta in spring 2024

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to take on our red team drones
and show us what you got!