Earlier today, we were able to capture video of a bullet
hitting a drone at 70,000 frames per second,
and it makes for very interesting video
and so, that was a really great part of the Sandbox.
Innovators from across Canada and around the world
have been testing their tech in Suffield, Alberta,
to detect and defeat drones,
also known as Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems.
Today, we're speaking with Major Raymond Green
and Jared Giesbrecht, to learn more about
the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security,
or IDEaS, Sandbox event.
With the development of drones over the last few years,
the nature of warfare is changing.
And so, drones present a threat that is very different
from traditional threats in terms of detection,
identification, and defeating them, that's very different
from things that we've seen in the past.
So, this is a challenge area
and a growth area for the Canadian Forces.
And so, we're looking to inform them
on how best they can address this changing world.
The job of the Sandbox is to generate information
to be shared between various interested parties.
And so, that's what we're doing, is just generating knowledge.
And we're also trying to spark conversations
between industry, between the Canadian Forces,
between our scientific staff,
on how we can better develop and use these technologies.
The Sandbox is important simply for the fact that
if we want to be able to understand new technologies
that are available to us,
with Defence Research Development Canada,
in the sandboxes that they provide,
it helps the CAF to learn faster,
be more ready for new technologies
as the industry is starting to develop it.
Essentially, I'm looking for
the advancements of these technologies.
It's been a few years since, really,
you saw the advance of Counter Use Technologies.
There has been a previous Sandbox done in 2019,
and based on the information that we have on those systems,
looking at the new systems today,
to see how much more they have become integrated.
Obviously size, form, and factor is a huge piece.
With the changes in the technology,
it makes it much easier for the operator to operate with,
and that's a key thing for us
to be able to use it on the battlefield.
There are two primary benefits that we generate
for innovators that come here.
One is the Sandbox environment,
and the ability to use their technologies
that they might not be able to deploy in other places,
or test in other places.
We provide a challenging red team for them,
drone pilots, adversaries for them to work against,
and this is something they don't always have access to.
The second part of that is also their access
to the military client.
To provide feedback to the companies, the innovators,
on where their technologies could be better,
how they could package them better,
how they could make them more useful for the Canadian Forces.
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