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Jared Dodds
Editor of Manufacturing AUTOMATION magazine (Annex Business Media) in Toronto, covering Canadian manufacturing and defence technology.
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Oct 9, 2026
“We Need Everything, Yesterday” (a.k.a. The Big Defence Episode)
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Kirstyn BrownHOST
Were there some announcements or big investments this year that's been on your radar?
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24:43Jared DoddsGUEST
Yeah, I'll jump to the Defense Drone Initiative, which out of time of recording is fairly fresh.
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24:50Jared DoddsGUEST
This stood out to me and this was a big talking point at the Canadian Robotics Council, given obviously the unmanned and robotic nature of drones, that kind of makes sense.
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25:03Jared DoddsGUEST
The first one being the six key use cases that they identified for drones, which are low cost tactical intelligence, surveillance side of things, uncrewed ground vehicles, maritime surface and underwater systems.
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25:17Jared DoddsGUEST
standardized drone munitions, low-cost, low-collateral counter drone acceptors, and deep precision strike systems.
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25:23Jared DoddsGUEST
So just within that, you hear some of the traditional things that you'd hear from military.
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