Mapping Canada's defence industrial base
Every company, every contract, every grant: ownership-resolved and queryable, built on Publicus' million-plus record database of the Canadian public sector.
The missing data on the Canadian defence supply chain
The most comprehensive list of companies in the defence supply chain: who they are, the grants they've received, the contracts they've won, and who EDC could support next.
Publicus is an AI platform purpose-built for government procurement data. We built our agent system to help businesses find and win government contracts, and it worked well enough that the federal government approached us directly. Today we work with Public Services and Procurement Canada under a federal contract, and 100+ Canadian organisations use the data engine daily.
- Every company, classified: 9,000+ companies tagged by ownership (Canadian-owned or not, via ultimate beneficial ownership), category, sub-category, and geography, aligned to UN and NATO standards.
- Every dollar, linked: $100B+ in procurement and $5B in defence-related grants, traced at the company level.
- The next wave: a 100+ firm dual-use watchlist of grant-backed companies that have not yet won prime work, the firms building Canada's defence base before the contracts prove it.
Find and support exporters
- Every Canadian company in the supply chain
- Who they work with, and which contracts prove capability
- Who is exporting today, and who is ready to start
Know the market
& ISR
- Market size and growth for every category and sub-category
- Concentration: five-firm oligopolies versus open fields of 600+ vendors
- Where Canadian-owned firms are winning versus watching
Map the world
- Global procurement data for any allied market, on request
- What allies buy, from whom, and where Canada can displace US suppliers
- A target list for advocacy, from real purchasing behaviour
| Company | Ownership | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| MDA Space Brampton, ON | Cdn-owned | $312M |
| Calian Group Ottawa, ON | Cdn-owned | $148M |
| Gastops Ottawa, ON | Cdn-owned | $44M |
Ask anything
Query the full dataset in plain language; every stat clicks through to its contracts.
Market reports
Report-grade written analysis on any category, region, or theme.
Interactive directory
Filter the company base by ownership, category, geography, and grant history.
Additional data requests
Commission new data cuts, geographies, or integrations on request.
A federal contract with Public Services and Procurement Canada, and 100+ Canadian organisations on the same data engine.
Cleaned $260B+ of federal procurement and resolved every vendor to true ownership. Firms labelled ~82% Canadian-owned fell to ~50% under UBO.
Turning federal contracts, amendments, and invoices into a lineage-traceable data foundation PSPC owns outright, on a Protected B sovereign cloud.
