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Select Cognition and trust: Real-time dynamic calibration for human-autonomy teams │ Innovation for Multi-modal AI for advanced situational decisions │ Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)

June 2, 2026

Value

Funding awarded for this challenge will depend on your solution’s Technology Readiness Level (TRL). Lower TRL solutions (TRL 1-3) will be eligible for up to $250,000 for a period of up to six months for solution development. In the design phase (TRL 4-5), up to $1.5 million in funding is available for a period of up to 12 months. Finally, during the build phase (TRL 6-9), up to $5 million is available to build and validate your prototype in various environments.

Description

The Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) are seeking innovative AI (Artificial Intelligence)-driven solutions that fuse heterogeneous multi-domain data streams to provide real-time, explainable, and policy-aware situational awareness for operational decision-making. By increasing situational awareness on the battlefield, this new technology will reduce system vulnerabilities and increase speed of decision making.

Eligible Applicants

This Call For Proposal (CFP) is open to individuals, academia, not-for-profit organizations, provincial/territorial or municipal government organizations, and all industry. Federal and provincial crown corporations are not eligible for funding.

Eligible Expenses

Innovators can propose solutions at all stages of development. Early-stage technologies that would benefit from development funding are encouraged to participate. Solutions that have reached a mature level of technical readiness and are moving toward future testing or demonstration may apply for funding through this Call.

Deadline Date

The CFP opens April 23, 2026, and the deadline to submit proposals is June 2, 2026, at 2:00 PM EDT

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/competitive-projects/challenges/multi-modal-ai-for-advanced-situational-decisions.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, AI, Defence

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