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Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2025 (Urban) │ Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)

January 1, 1900

Value

Up to $20,000 in funding per company.

Description

The 2025 CUAS Sandbox (Urban) addresses this by using a major urban city environment as the test location. To ensure safety and prevent potential damage to city infrastructure, demonstrations will be limited to ‘detect-only,’ with no defeat mechanisms permitted during testing. Technologies capable of defeating drones can apply, but their defeat mechanisms will not be tested. Only detection capabilities will be evaluated, selected to attend, and demonstrated at the Sandbox.

Eligible Applicants

  • Applications are open to individuals, academia, not for profit organizations, and industry of any size, as well as provincial, territorial, and municipal organizations.
  • Federal government departments/agencies, and federal Crown Corporations are not eligible to submit applications to this Call for Applications.
  • Foreign companies can apply. Sandboxes are not exclusively restricted to made in Canada products/solutions; however, the level of Canadian content within each application will be given consideration during the evaluation process.

Eligible Expenses

  • Up to five days provided to each company selected to attend, and space for 16 companies concurrently.
  • Four types of test locations: Ground level, Mid-level balcony on a high-rise building, High-level balcony on a high-rise building, and Rooftop.
  • A red team of assorted drone targets flying around each test location.
  • On-site one-on-one continual interaction with Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) end-users, United States (US) Government – Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD), and science experts.
  • Iterative testing and demonstration to improve your technology.
  • Feedback from CAF / RCMP to customize and adjust your test plan on the fly.
  • Up to $20,000 in funding per company.
  • Monetary prizes for promising technologies.

Deadline Date

The application period for the Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2025 (Urban) has closed, and winners were announced in February 2026. The application deadline for the subsequent Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox 2026, held from September 14 to October 9, 2026, in Suffield, Alberta, was December 15, 2025, and is now closed. Please visit the official Canada.ca IDEaS program website for information on any future opportunities.

Contact

Contact Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)

E-mail Address: IDEaSSandboxes-EnvironnementsprotegesIDEeS@forces.gc.ca

Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/defence-ideas/element/sandboxes/challenge/counter-uncrewed-aerial-systems-sandbox-2025.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, USA, Yukon

Tags:

ABmunis, Sandbox

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