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Title:

BARRIER (Building AI Resilience Readiness Intelligence for Emergent Responsiveness)

Agreement Number:

1040986

Agreement Value:

$75,000.00

Agreement Date:

Mar 29, 2026 - Mar 28, 2027

Description:

RUNWITHIT will advance relationships with primes and Canada’s Department of National Defence, and prepare for procurement processes with BARRIER. BARRIER is a Synthetic Twin of Canada where virtual deployments and choices in resilience, energy, security, communities, commercial and industrial development, and defence play forward from a converged model of the present into the future to plot pathways to achieve measured goal outcomes. BARRIER is an Artificial Intelligence platform for advancing cleantech and resilience in the build-out of Canada’s defence capabilities. BARRIER blends augmented actual data with real-time and generated future data to explore, see, solve and operationalize sustainability, sovereignty and security.

Organization:

National Research Council Canada

Expected Results:

The expected results and outcomes of NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program is focused on growing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through innovation and wealth creation for Canada.

Location:

Sherwood Park, Alberta, CA T8C 1B2

Reference Number:

172-2025-2026-Q4-1040986

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

886962828

Recipient Type:

For-profit organization

Recipient's Legal Name:

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.

Federal Riding Name:

Sherwood Park--Fort Saskatchewan

Federal Riding Number:

48032

Program:

Industrial Research Assistance Program

Program Purpose:

The purpose of Industrial Research Assistance Program Contributions to Firms is to provide support that assists small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to advance their innovation knowledge and ability to innovate, grow through innovation and stimulate wealth creation for Canada.

Coverage:

Industrial Research Assistance Program projects stimulate wealth creation for Canada through technological innovation and strengthen Canadian innovation ecosystem by creating new industrial capacity.

NAICS Code:

51121