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France Hébert Appointed President of CAE’s Consolidated Defence & Security Business Across Canada and International Markets
Ottawa, Canada — December 05, 2025 — Invest Ottawa is proud to congratulate France Hébert, Vice Chair of the Invest Ottawa Board of Directors, on her appointment as President of Defence & Security, Canada and International for CAE. In a public announcement made earlier this month, France expressed her gratitude and excitement for stepping into this expanded leadership role: “I’m…
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Ottawa’s Area X.O Achieves Milestone with Special Flight Operations Certificate for DJI T50 Drone to operate in Class C Airspace
December 5, 2025 – Ottawa, ON – Area X.O, the National Capital’s advanced R&D complex, has been granted a Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) authorizing operation of its DJI Agras T50 agricultural drone within Class C airspace near Ottawa International Airport. This certification, a first for a Canadian test site in Class C airspace, represents an…
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Nokia Breaks Ground on New Ottawa Innovation Campus, Strengthening Canada’s Tech Leadership
Ottawa, Canada — November 27, 2025 — Ottawa’s position as a global technology hub was further strengthened this week as Nokia officially broke ground on its new 750,000-square-foot Innovation Campus in the Kanata North Tech Park. This investment deepens Nokia’s more than five decades of pioneering R&D in Ottawa and reinforces Canada’s global leadership in AI, quantum…
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Ottawa-based TACTIQL Showcases Canadian Innovation on the Global Stage at NATO Annual Robotics Exercise
Ottawa, Canada — November 26th, 2026 – Ottawa technology company TACTIQL is celebrating the successful showcasing of its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data-integration platform, FULCRUM, during NATO’s Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS) 2025 exercise – one of the Alliance’s premier global events for maritime robotics and unmanned systems. Their performance in…
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Invest Ottawa Celebrates Solink’s Ottawa Expansion and Vision to Grow to 1,000 Employees by 2030
Ottawa, Canada – October 30, 2025 – Invest Ottawa proudly celebrates Solink, a homegrown leader in AI-powered security and analytics technology, as the company expands its Ottawa headquarters and sets its sights on reaching 1,000 employees worldwide by 2030. As reported in a recent BetaKit article, Solink’s renovated west-end headquarters more than doubles its footprint from 14,000 to 31,000 square feet,…
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Homegrown Meets Prime: Ottawa’s Metropolitan Technologies Partners with CAE to Strengthen Canada’s Cyber Resilience
Ottawa, Canada – November 5, 2025 – In a cyber and defence innovation ecosystem update, CAE Defence and Security, one of Canada’s top defence primes, recently announced a new partnership with Metropolitan Technologies, an Ottawa-based company developing secure, smart infrastructure solutions designed to protect critical systems in high-stakes environments. The announcement was made last week during CADSI’s recent Cyber and…
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Spotlighting Larus Technologies’ Ottawa Roots – and the Opportunity Ahead for Canada’s Defence Innovation Sector
Ottawa, Canada – October 15, 2025 – Invest Ottawa is proud to spotlight Larus Technologies, a homegrown leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), recently featured by the Ottawa Business Journal for its groundbreaking work and the tremendous opportunities emerging across Canada’s defence innovation sector. As highlighted in the article, rising global demand for trusted, sovereign technologies…
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GCXpo 2025 Showcases Record Growth at a Critical Inflection Point for Canadian Defence, Dual-Use and AgriTech Innovations
GCXpo 2025 ignited Canada’s Capital on September 23–24, bringing together more than 1,500 innovators, investors, and stakeholders for the nation’s premier emerging and dual-use tech demo day and showcase. This year’s event featured the inaugural preview night and 90 pioneering companies and founders from Canada’s Capital and across the country demonstrating breakthrough technologies in defence,…
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Invest Ottawa Welcomes SEA Canada’s New Defence Manufacturing Facility in the Nation’s Capital
Ottawa, Canada – September 29, 2025 – Invest Ottawa proudly congratulates SEA Canada, part of the SEA Group and Cohort plc, on the opening of its new 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Ottawa. The Ottawa site, officially opened at today’s event by Glenn Gower, City Councillor for Stittsville, and British High Commissioner to Canada Robert Tinline, marks a…
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Invest Ottawa Joins Forces with CENGN and Ericsson on 5G Innovation
Ottawa, ON – September 23, 2025 – Invest Ottawa, in partnership with CENGN, is expanding its recently launched Bayview BetaWorks program and Area X.O services to further strengthen commercialization pathways for Canadian startups and scaleups. This collaboration will further enable these innovators to test, validate and demonstrate transformative technologies with prospective end users and first customers, increasing the…
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Ranovus Expands in Ottawa with Over $100M Investment, Creating 125 New Jobs
Ottawa, August 20, 2025 — Invest Ottawa is proud to celebrate Ranovus Inc.’s announcement of more than $100 million in new investment to expand its advanced optical semiconductor manufacturing facility in Ottawa. In support of this investment, Ontario is providing up to $2 million in funding through the Invest Ontario Fund. This major expansion will create…
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Aurrigo launches Canada’s first all-season, medium-speed autonomous shuttle in Kanata
Aurrigo International plc, a global leader in autonomous vehicle technology, is expanding its vehicle line-up into North America with the deployment of its nine-seater passenger Auto-Shuttle® in Kanata, marking the start of Canada’s first all-season, medium-speed autonomous shuttle on public roads. The project, delivered with the Kanata North Business Association (KNBA) and in collaboration with Area X.O operated…
