IBM Canada Defence and Intelligence Centre

Accelerating Canada’s defence and intelligence modernization with trusted AI, cyber resilience, and secure digital innovation.

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Powering Canada’s digital defence future

Canada faces increasing demands for secure digital modernization, improved cyber resilience, and advanced AI capabilities. With geopolitical complexity rising and technology evolving rapidly, maintaining digital sovereignty is essential – ensuring that Canada can protect, govern, and innovate across its digital landscape with speed and scale. The IBM Canada Defence and Intelligence Centre supports these priorities by providing a collaborative environment where innovation can be developed, tested, and deployed responsibly.

Built to support Canada’s defence and intelligence modernization goals, the Centre provides a secure environment for teams to explore advanced technologies, including AI, automation, cybersecurity, hybrid cloud, and quantum. It enables rapid co‑creation, experimentation, and solution scaling to address Canada’s most complex defence and security challenges.

Located in Ottawa, the IBM Canada Defence and Intelligence Centre allows defence organizations, industry partners, and IBM experts to collaborate on mission‑specific solutions in alignment with Canadian defence priorities.

By combining Canadian insight with IBM’s global research and technology leadership, the Centre helps Canada strengthen mission readiness, modernize legacy platforms, accelerate AI adoption, enhance cyber defence, and build sovereign digital capabilities for the future of multi‑domain operations.

Our solutions AI
IBM is working with the defence industry to develop AI-enhanced capabilities for faster battlefield planning. From autonomous vessels to customised, protected model training data sets, we teach defence teams how to get the best out of these new technologies to improve mission outcomes and gain decision advantage.
Automation
From command and control to payroll, IBM is helping the military modernise, consolidate and automate its digital platforms and speed decision-making. Digital transformation driven by software-defined defence (SDD) is increasing national security, lowering costs, simplifying system maintenance and reducing risk.
Cyber Resilience
Cyberthreats are constantly evolving and attack surfaces are multiplying. IBM, together with our ecosystem of partners, offers innovative cybersecurity solutions to increase security operations centre (SOC) efficiency, boost CyberOps capabilities and defend supply chains from infiltration. Let us help you protect precious data, information, and national security.
Data
Data plays a key role in all defence activities, from the battlefield to the back office. IBM works with defence agencies to stand up intelligent data fabrics and embed new data governance models that get the right data to the right processes and people at the right time and place.
Hybrid Cloud
IBM is helping the defence industry embrace the flexibility that hybrid cloud technology brings. By working with, across, and independently of all major cloud service providers, we can accelerate the cloud journey to lower costs and improve efficiency.
Quantum Computing
Assessing complex battlefield scenarios and making the right, split-second decisions is a significant challenge. IBM is making quantum computers accessible to defence and security communities and exploring how to harness this revolutionary technology for decision advantage.
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