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Jared Dodds

Editor of Manufacturing AUTOMATION magazine (Annex Business Media) in Toronto, covering Canadian manufacturing and defence technology.

Oct 9, 2026

24:38
Were there some announcements or big investments this year that's been on your radar?
24:43
Yeah, I'll jump to the Defense Drone Initiative, which out of time of recording is fairly fresh.
24:50
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.
24:59
This stands out to me in a couple of ways.
25:03
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.
25:17
standardized drone munitions, low-cost, low-collateral counter drone acceptors, and deep precision strike systems.
25:23
So just within that, you hear some of the traditional things that you'd hear from military.

14 MINS LATER

39:15
And even outside of the IPA question, do we need a Canadian prime?

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