Ottawa company developing Larus Foresight, AI/ML decision-support software that fuses sensor and intelligence data, generates adversary and friendly courses of action, and plans ISR collection for army, navy and joint operations.
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Ottawa company developing Larus Foresight, AI/ML decision-support software that fuses sensor and intelligence data, generates adversary and friendly courses of action, and plans ISR collection for army, navy and joint operations.
National Defence awarded Larus a competitively sourced $8,305,500 contract on 27 August 2025, running to 31 March 2028; Larus says it is an IDEaS initiative with the Canadian Army. search.open.canada.ca
Won a three-year, $2.5 million Royal Canadian Navy contract in September 2025 to use AI/ML on vessel position data to detect unusual activity near Canada's coasts. obj.ca
The federal contracts register lists a competitively sourced National Defence Radar Defence Systems (R&D) contract with Larus dated 14 June 2012, one of a series of DND R&D contracts. search.open.canada.ca
States that it is ISO 27001:2022 certified and that several of its technologies fall under the Canadian Controlled Goods Program. larus.com
Ontario registry lists LARUS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (incorporated 1995-08-30) as active with an Ottawa registered office. ised-isde.canada.ca
Unilever Canada agreed in September 2020 to work with Larus to develop AI/ML-based analytics, giving it access to Unilever Canada data sources and business-intelligence expertise. larus.com
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AI-powered decision intelligence
Suite that combines real-time data, predictive analytics and scenario simulation. It offers solutions for operational planning (Canadian Army), maritime situational awareness (Royal Canadian Navy) and joint all-domain decision intelligence.
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Larus contributes optimization, simulation and decision support to Babcock Canada's iSupport360 platform for defence sustainment and readiness programs.
Integrating Larus Foresight into the Battle Lab through the GDMS DIGITALspine.
Joint IDEaS 1B project DARTMODE, pairing Larus AI/ML decision support with Hexagon's Luciad visualization platforms for multi-domain operations.
Joined Capella's Analytics Partner Program (September 2024) for access to SAR imagery to build SAR-based analytics, starting with automated collection planning.
Partner on the IDEaS MAABI project (2022), delivering Larus retroactive analytics for activity-based intelligence through Kongsberg's IRIS UxS system.
Agreement (2020) for Larus to develop AI/ML-based analytics on Unilever Canada data; later partners on Scale AI demand-forecasting and trade-promotion projects.
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
Engineering services contract, National Defence (Larus reports it as a Canadian Army initiative awarded through IDEaS) — defence contract
Business Scale-up and Productivity, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario — repayable contribution
Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada — contribution
Scale AI (AI Global Innovation Cluster) — End-to-End ML-based Demand Forecasting project with Unilever Canada and SOSCIP
Scale AI (AI Global Innovation Cluster) — trade promotion optimization project with Unilever Canada and Federated Co-operatives
Innovative Solutions Canada — Total::Foresight Collaborative Analytics Solution — contract
IDEaS (National Defence) — MAABI multi-domain adversarial behaviour modelling project with Kongsberg Geospatial
Larus unveiled a new brand and website focused on AI-powered decision intelligence for defence and security. It cited more than $10 million in recent awards: an $8.3 million DND and Canadian Army initiative through IDEaS and a $2.5 million Royal Canadian Navy maritime domain awareness program.
OBJ reported that Larus won a three-year, $2.5 million Royal Canadian Navy contract to detect unusual vessel activity near Canada's coasts. The company then had about 50 employees and planned to hire dozens more; non-military clients made up nearly 25 per cent of revenue.
Larus announced a $1.5 million repayable investment from FedDev Ontario to create jobs and expand software development capacity for a SaaS product aimed at retail, e-commerce and supply-chain B2B markets.
Larus announced an Innovative Solutions Canada contract for Total::Foresight, a decision support system and systems simulation engine being tested by the Department of National Defence and other national security organizations.
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