Arctic Training Centre gives companies a chance to trial defence tech in northern climate

Arjun Grenwal, founder of the Arctic Training Centre, which is headquartered just outside Whitehorse.

A new private testing centre in Canada’s North is inviting defence companies to trial their technologies in a region singled out by Ottawa as a spending priority to defend the country’s borders.

The Arctic Training Centre, founded by entrepreneur and Canadian Armed Forces veteran Arjun Grewal, will offer space to companies from Canada and its allied countries to test their products on northern and Arctic landscapes, and prove their effectiveness in contributing to Canada’s mission there.

The centre will help ensure tools used by the Canadian Forces in the Arctic are actually tested in a northern climate. Often, Mr. Grewal said federal government procurements that go awry in the Nort