ICON – Innovation Centre of the North

About Us

DIANA was created by NATO to help develop dual-use technologies addressing security, resilience and defence.

The Innovation Centre of the North (ICON) supports innovation from TRL 1-10 through in-lab development and in-situ testing.

Spanning from southern Ontario to BC, ICON offers research, development and validation services in diverse environments, enabling new standards with a focus on interoperability and responsible use.

Our network drives high-value outcomes through collaboration and expertise.

Services Offered

ICON provides research, development, and testing across a wide range of cutting-edge systems and technologies:

Remote Sensing

Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

AR / VR / XR Systems & Development

Energy & Resource Management

Industrial IoT

Additive Manufacturing

Materials Development & Characterization

Cybersecurity

Extreme Cold Weather Testing Facilities

Data & Sensor Integration

Data Management

AI / ML Development

Long-Range Flight Corridors for Unmanned Systems

Ground & AI-Based DAA Systems

Regulatory Compliance & Development

Access to Several Private Airports Across Canada

Technological Areas

Extreme cold weather testing and validation

Unmanned and autonomous systems

Additive manufacturing

AI/ML development and integration

Biomedical sciences

Data management

Cybersecurity

Data and sensor integration

AR/VR/XR development

Mobile Optimization

Innovation Centre of the North

About Us

Services Offered

Technological Areas

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