{"id":509019,"date":"2026-03-02T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:32:26","slug":"feds-defence-industrial-strategy-promises-much-potential-for-canada-but-it-will-need-public-and-private-sector-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509019\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds&#8217; defence industrial strategy promises much potential for Canada, but it will need public and private-sector champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tIncreases in federal R&amp;D spending and new initiatives through the Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in Innovation and Science\u2014BOREALIS\u2014are important. The strategy also promises $4-billion in new venture funding through the Business Development Bank of Canada.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6L8A0521_1.t69791f01.m2048@0.x7BbpwQ9y-e1772124881105.jpg\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJapanese Ambassador to Canada, Kanji Yamanouchi, left, and Defence Minister David McGuinty at the signing of the Canada-Japan Equipment and Technology Transfer Agreement in Ottawa on Jan. 27, 2026. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increases in federal R&amp;D spending and new initiatives through the Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-509019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}