Ottawa company that designs and manufactures electromagnetic spectrum hardware and software: ESM/ELINT signals-intelligence receivers, multi-channel radar threat emulators for EW test and training, HF over-the-horizon radar processing, and RF/IF record-and-playback.
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Ottawa company that designs and manufactures electromagnetic spectrum hardware and software: ESM/ELINT signals-intelligence receivers, multi-channel radar threat emulators for EW test and training, HF over-the-horizon radar processing, and RF/IF record-and-playback.
The company's site gives its International Headquarters as 2500 Lancaster Rd, Ottawa, with a US office in Arlington, Virginia (D-TA Systems Corp.). d-ta.com
States that it has "over 50 active customers in FVEY, NATO and QUAD countries", many of them repeat customers (company-stated; customers not named). d-ta.com
Ottawa Citizen (April 2023) reported that D-TA had recently delivered a working over-the-horizon radar to Defence Research and Development Canada. ottawacitizen.com
Signed a contract to design, build and deliver a next-generation EW radar emulation system to QinetiQ for threat replication services in the UK (reported October 2025; value not disclosed). canadiandefencereview.com
Products D-TA Systems publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
SIGINT
Multi-Function ELINT (MFEL) radar-ESM/ELINT products and CSM communication-ESM products for threat detection, bearing estimation, classification and recording. The receivers stream I/Q data over optical networks to servers where all processing is done in software.
Learn moreEW Threat Emulation
Multi-channel radar signal emulators that stream baseband waveforms from disk. They are used for injection testing of radar-warning and EW receivers, and PETS/PETS+ versions support over-the-air testing on short to large ranges.
Learn moreOver-The-Horizon Radar
HF processing products for sky-wave and surface-wave over-the-horizon radar. D-TA says it has delivered several very large HF radar systems (over 1,000 receive and 200 transmit channels) for Arctic and other sites.
Learn moreGovernment support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII), Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario — contribution
Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada — contribution
Research contract, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada — procurement contract
Product design of a 256-channel radio receiver, National Defence — defence contract
Canadian Defence Review reported that D-TA Systems signed a contract with QinetiQ to design, manufacture and deliver a next-generation electronic warfare emulation system. QinetiQ will use it to provide threat replication services for training and for test and evaluation of air, maritime and land platforms.
Canadian Defence Review reported that D-TA Systems won a contract to design, manufacture and deliver a proof of concept of new electronic warfare range equipment, the THREAT emulator, for training Belgian Defence pilots.
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