Government of Canada · IDEaS program

What we have put forward under IDEaS.

Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) is the Department of National Defence program that funds Canadian innovators to solve stated defence and security challenges. ChainSmart AI has submitted to two challenges under Call for Proposals 006. Both submissions are under evaluation.

CFP 006 · Challenge 13 · CP6-132301 · Submitted 2 June 2026

Trusted AI Fusion with Chained Provenance for Pan-Domain Situational Awareness and Decision Support

Response to Multi-modal AI for Advanced Situational Decisions. A provenance-first architecture that fuses structured outputs from existing sensor, intelligence, operational, policy and human-reporting systems into explainable, policy-aware decision support for tactical, operational and strategic users. Rules are enforced before the AI sees the data; every input, prompt, response, correction and decision is chained. Demonstrated on a synthetic Arctic pan-domain scenario spanning submarine, airborne surveillance, SIGINT/RF, maritime task group, Canadian Ranger, OSINT, policy/legal and environmental/social inputs.

Status: submitted, under evaluation.

CFP 006 · Challenge 14 · CP6-144051 · Submitted 19 July 2026

Fusion Compliance Engine (FCE): Trusted Provenance-Based Classification Enforcement and Audit for Multi-Domain AI Fusion

Response to Reliable AI Sensor Fusion for Real-World Missions. A modular compliance layer that tags every data element at ingestion—source, sensor type, classification, timestamp, domain—and evaluates it against machine-readable policy before any AI reasoning occurs. Enforcement (permit, restrict, downgrade, segregate) is deterministic and automatic, with human review reserved for exceptions, and every decision is written to a tamper-evident audit trail suitable for compliance review, forensic analysis and accreditation.

Status: submitted, under evaluation.

NATO DIANA

ChainSmart AI has also submitted to the NATO DIANA accelerator (2027 cohort) under the Responsive Logistics challenge, applying the same trusted decision chain to contested-environment resupply.

Partnering

We are open to consortium partners—particularly in sensor integration and edge deployment—for the development phases that follow a successful evaluation.

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Primes, integrators and research institutions preparing IDEaS or DIANA responses: we bring the trusted decision chain and the defence context.

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