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NORTAC Defence

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Ottawa company developing TITAN BY NORTAC, a command-and-control and situational-awareness platform that fuses tracking and messaging from satellite, cellular and radio devices, alongside its own satellite tracking device and mobile apps.

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About

Company site: nortacdefence.com

Ottawa company developing TITAN BY NORTAC, a command-and-control and situational-awareness platform that fuses tracking and messaging from satellite, cellular and radio devices, alongside its own satellite tracking device and mobile apps.

  • Federal corporation 754807-9, incorporated under the CBCA on 2010-05-10 as Track24 Canada Limited and renamed NORTAC Defence Limited on 2018-08-14, status Active, registered office in Ottawa. ised-isde.canada.ca

  • States that it has been the prime provider of Iridium-based tracking and messaging capabilities to Canadian government agencies since 2011. nortacdefence.com

  • Canadian Army Today named NORTAC Defence among the suppliers of the Army's cloud-based TAK network used on Exercise Maple Resolve and Operation LENTUS in 2023. canadianarmytoday.com

  • Shared Services Canada multi-department contract 700611230 has been amended repeatedly since 2021. The latest register entry (2026-27 Q1) shows a total value of $17,864,811.90. search.open.canada.ca

Products & Services

Company site: nortacdefence.com

Products NORTAC Defence publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

TITAN BY NORTAC

Command and control platform

Core platform of the NORTAC ecosystem: tracks assets and personnel, handles two-way messaging and emergency alerts, integrates satellite and cellular devices and digital radios, and passes data to other systems.

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NORTAC WAVE

Satellite tracking and messaging device

Company-designed satellite device for real-time messaging between users and headquarters, with an ATAK plug-in that passes TAK data beyond line of sight over Bluetooth.

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NORTAC ORION+

Mobile situational-awareness app

Android app that turns a phone into a secure LTE command-and-control and situational-awareness tool, with live positions, synced geofences and points of interest, and emergency alerts; paired with NORTAC WAVE it works beyond line of sight.

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Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. Shared Services Canada contract 700611230 for communications and network services, part of a multi-department contract — procurement contract

  2. Shared Services Canada call-up P000013641 for communications and network services against standing offer K000008814 — procurement contract

  3. Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada — multi-agency tactical data federation and interoperability platform — contribution

  4. Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms, National Research Council Canada — server contract connector — contribution

  5. Business Scale-up and Productivity, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario — contribution

  6. CanExport SMEs, delivered by National Research Council Canada — grant

Recent News

  1. Dec 24, 2024Government

    Sunny, with a chance of Cloud TAK

    Canadian Army Today reported on the Army's Cloud TAK network, which went from a proof of concept on Exercise Maple Resolve and Operation LENTUS to a fielded domestic capability. It named NORTAC Defence among the suppliers the network drew on.

Technology Focus

Company site: nortacdefence.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Blue Force TrackingCommand and controlBeyond-Line-of-SightShort burst dataTAKAES-256 encryption

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