Dominion Dynamics to test defence tech in “extreme” environment through Arctic Training Centre partnership

Ottawa-based defence tech firm Dominion Dynamics is partnering with the Arctic Training Centre (ATC) in Whitehorse to develop and test its systems designed to help defend the Canadian North.

“We are ultimately planning on building a sovereign defence prime [contractor] for Canada [that] can compete with the American primes and European primes.”

The three-year partnership agreement provides Dominion Dynamics with access to the ATC’s testing facilities in the Yukon, where it will use the “unique northern environment” to test and validate its sensing, autonomy, and communications technologies purpose-built for extreme operations.

The partnership is “absolutely critical,” Dominion COO Mitch Carkner told BetaKit in an interview. Otherwise, the company would be limited to testing its tech thr