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Cognition and trust: Real-time dynamic calibration for human-autonomy teams │ Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)

June 17, 2026

Value

Up to $1,000,000 to March 31, 2028, to develop a research micro-network, known as a micro-net.

Description

In response to the revolutionary potential promised by the integration of autonomous systems into defence and security operations, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) are seeking to advance methods to assess, calibrate, and maintain trust in real-time when humans work with autonomous systems.

Eligible Applicants

The Call for Proposal (CFP) is open exclusively to multidisciplinary teams of researchers. The primary affiliation of the Micro-net partners must be from at least three separate institutions and/or organizations.

Eligible Lead Applicant organizations or institutions are:

  • Canadian university institutions chartered in Canada.

Eligible Partner organizations or institutions are:

  • Canadian universities and educational institutions chartered in Canada;
  • Canadian incorporated for-profit organizations;
  • Canadian incorporated not-for-profit organizations; or
  • Canadian provincial, territorial and municipal government organizations.

For this challenge, the micro-net should consider partnerships that include human factors/psychology experts and machine learning/engineering experts.

All organizations/institutions must possess the legal status necessary to enter into a funding agreement.

Eligible Expenses

The outcomes of this Challenge concentrate on areas that align with immediate priorities in Canada’s NORAD Modernization Plan that develop expertise and advance DND/CAF understanding of technologies that enable a safe, efficient, and secure partnership between humans and autonomous systems. This can be achieved by establishing a dynamic trust management system (i.e., a real-time system that measures, maintains, repairs, and calibrates trust) that maintains technological sovereignty and collaborative performance when working with fallible autonomous systems.

Areas of research may include, but are not limited to:

  • Trust metrics (define and quantify);
  • Explainable and assured autonomy; or
  • Trust in human-autonomy teaming.

Innovation solutions must incorporate testing, such as software simulation testing, in the research to enable inclusion of tested results in the final report.

Deadline Date

Applicants have until 2:00 pm (eastern time), Wednesday, June 17, 2026, to submit their proposal.

Contact

Contact Name: CFP

E-mail Address: IDEaS-IN.IDEeS-RI@forces.gc.ca

Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/defence-ideas/element/innovation-networks/challenge/cognition-and-trust-real-time-dynamic-calibration-for-human-autonomy-teams.html

Industry:

Municipalities, Non-Profit, Software/Technology, University Partnerships

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Tags:

ABmunis, Defense and Security

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