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Prime Minister Mark Carney tries out an Orion-H9 Counter-UAS, a directional drone disruptor, as he visits a vehicle display at the Adazi Military base in Latvia on Aug. 27.

Nicolas Todd is head of the Canadian delegation to the NATO industrial advisory group and vice-president, government relations and communications, at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries.

It has been said that problems with defence procurement began 10 minutes after defence procurement was invented. Canada’s challenges with purchasing military equipment – big cost overruns, multiyear and opaque decision processes, bespoke technical requirements that are often almost impossible to meet – are well-known and stretch back decades.

Some believe the only way to improve the situation is thr

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