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Earlier today, we were able
to capture video of a bullet

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hitting a drone at
70,000 frames per second,

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and it makes for very
interesting video

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and so, that was a really
great part of the Sandbox.

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Innovators from across Canada
and around the world

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have been testing their tech
in Suffield, Alberta,

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to detect and defeat drones,

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also known as Counter Uncrewed
Aerial Systems.

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Today, we're speaking with
Major Raymond Green

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and Jared Giesbrecht,
to learn more about

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the Innovation for Defence
Excellence and Security,

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or IDEaS, Sandbox event.

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With the development of drones
over the last few years,

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the nature of warfare
is changing.

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And so, drones present a threat
that is very different

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from traditional threats
in terms of detection,

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identification, and defeating
them, that's very different

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from things that
we've seen in the past.

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So, this is a challenge area

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and a growth area
for the Canadian Forces.

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And so, we're looking to
inform them

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on how best they can address
this changing world.

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The job of the Sandbox
is to generate information

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to be shared between various
interested parties.

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And so, that's what we're doing,
is just generating knowledge.

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And we're also trying
to spark conversations

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between industry,
between the Canadian Forces,

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between our scientific staff,

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on how we can better develop
and use these technologies.

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The Sandbox is important
simply for the fact that

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if we want to be able
to understand new technologies

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that are available to us,

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with Defence Research
Development Canada,

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in the sandboxes
that they provide,

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it helps the CAF
to learn faster,

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be more ready
for new technologies

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as the industry
is starting to develop it.

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Essentially, I'm looking for

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the advancements
of these technologies.

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It's been a few years
since, really,

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you saw the advance
of Counter Use Technologies.

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There has been a previous
Sandbox done in 2019,

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and based on the information
that we have on those systems,

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looking at
the new systems today,

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to see how much more
they have become integrated.

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Obviously size, form, and factor
is a huge piece.

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With the changes
in the technology,

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it makes it much easier for
the operator to operate with,

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and that's a key thing for us

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to be able to use it
on the battlefield.

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There are two primary benefits
that we generate

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for innovators that come here.

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One is the Sandbox environment,

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and the ability to use
their technologies

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that they might not be able
to deploy in other places,

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or test in other places.

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We provide a challenging
red team for them,

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drone pilots, adversaries
for them to work against,

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and this is something they don't
always have access to.

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The second part of that
is also their access

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to the military client.

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To provide feedback to
the companies, the innovators,

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on where their technologies
could be better,

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how they could package
them better,

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how they could make them more
useful for the Canadian Forces.

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