Innovators selected for the 2024 CUAS Sandbox
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The Sandbox event, hosted by the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security program, or IDEaS, provides a unique opportunity for selected innovators to demonstrate and test their cutting-edge technology in a real-world environment while gaining valuable feedback from Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces experts, and other potential safety and security end users.
IDEaS is pleased to announce it has selected the innovators who will participate in the third iteration of its counter-drone Sandbox in 2024.
It's important to be able to find some of those solutions to the problems that the Canadian Armed Forces are facing. And certainly, UAS is a problem that the Canadian Armed Forces are facing. How do we defend ourselves? How do we detect them? So I think our role is really to make sure that we can put together an event like this, bringing some of those innovators in an area where they can basically have free range if you wish, to show us what they got basically. And this is really our role in terms of supporting innovation for the Canadian Armed Forces as a research and development establishment.
So, this is a very good opportunity for us actually to come into a different country and to experience a different environment and the range as well. And we are able to do our testing in a short period actually because we have got all the facilities that is required. Test activities, having a clear blue sky, having a line of sight all over and this opportunity is really helping us to improve the system. Till now we have been testing a lot of things that we couldn't test in our range and finding our limitations, which will help us to improve our system.
Congratulations to the innovators selected! We look forward to welcoming you to Suffield, Alberta in Spring 2024 to take on our red team drones and show us what you got!
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