Invest Ottawa is making a push to transform the National Capital Region (NCR) into the “heartbeat” of Canada’s defence innovation economy.

In a Tuesday presentation at Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe unveiled Canada’s Capital Region National Defence Innovation Hub Strategy . The initiative, spearheaded by local economic development agency Invest Ottawa, hopes to attract up to $3 billion in public-private investment in the region’s defence innovation sector over the next five years.

“We can achieve disproportionate economic, safety, security, and military impact, but it will take a disproportionate amount of investment.”

Sutcliffe said the strategy supports Canada’s renewed commitment to defence spending, including its pledge to NATO , and said the region is “uniquely posit

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