Loading…
Loading…
DI Assist is a targeted domestic subsidy/advisory channel run through NRC IRAP — Canada's existing SME innovation-funding vehicle — rather than a new standalone agency. Funding flows as grants plus in-kind advisory support to SMEs building dual-use (civil/military) hardware and technology, explicitly tied to defence-industrial-base and supply-chain-resilience goals rather than pure R&D. It is framed by Ottawa as one build-out under the wider Defence Industrial Strategy announced for the 2025-26 fiscal year (CAD 6.6bn over five years), itself a response to NATO 2%-of-GDP spending-target pressure.
state-backed defence-SME financing (cf. EU EDIP, US ODIN-style vehicles) that favours nationally-based suppliers in dual-use component and subsystem markets.
screening element) — classified as subsidy, not industrial-policy, because the primary source discloses the exact grant pool (CAD 244.2m) rather than a broad multi-instrument programme.
recipient companies, which would allow company-level company_refs tagging in a follow-up filing.
filing time; a follow-up amendment should add company_refs once NRC IRAP publishes award recipients.
Mirage News coverage), not independently recomputed — treat as approximate.