Spread defence manufacturing across Canada so it can scale in a crisis

What the people stuck here are trying to get done

When Canada has no distributed manufacturing base for defence, I want licensed parts that local fabricators can produce on demand, with a share going back to the inventor, so I can switch from a peacetime to a wartime economy very rapidly if Canada is ever threatened.

Who needs it solved

Canadian defence manufacturers, local fabricators and 3D-printing shops, and the planners who would need to move the economy onto a defence footing quickly.

What makes it hard

A centralized supply chain is a single point of failure in an attack, and Canada has no distributed alternative.

“in a very ridiculous scenario of an attack, that's gone, because we just simply don't have distributed manufacturers across Canada.”

“if Canada is ever threatened, we can change economically from butter to guns very rapidly and start producing drones on scale like we've seen in Ukraine.”

What exists today

Matt points to licensed distributed manufacturing, a model the United States has toyed with, where a licensed part goes to a local steel fabricator and a share goes back to the company that invented it. He gave no product or vendor that does this in Canada today.