📝 Lemay.ai raises $3.6M

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In a strategic move to bolster domestic aerospace capabilities, the Canadian subsidiary of Lockheed Martin is investing $3.6 million CAD into Ottawa-based Lemay.ai to advance artificial intelligence research and development. This collaboration, which includes the Czech Aerospace Research Centre, will focus on critical defense applications such as predictive aircraft maintenance, supply chain optimization, and navigation in environments where GPS signals are jammed or denied. A key pillar of the project is "sovereign knowledge management," reflecting Canada’s broader push to enhance military autonomy and reduce technological dependence on foreign allies. The investment is driven by Canada’s Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) policy, which mandates that defense contractors like Lockheed Martin reinvest a value equal to their government contracts—in this case, tied to the support of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s CC-130J Super Hercules fleet—back into the Canadian economy.

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