and foreign suppliers) amounted to $14.3 billion Or 0.5 percent of GDP. Of the $14.3 billion in sales, $7 billion came from exports, meaning spending. Commercial off-the-shelf products $7.3 billion or 0.26 percent of GDP came from domestic procurement. To get a sense of the scaling procurement worldwide, notwithstanding issues challenge, this 0.26 percent may be compared to the 1.5 percent target for incremental spending specifications, because of lower cost and rapid critical. Today's commercial environment features almost six-fold to satisfy the implied demand. Moreover, given the rapid technological evolution ever-shortening product life cycles. Start-ups are under way in both civilian and military technology, services that presently are not being supplied. In short, Canada lacks the military-industrial commitments, which is a necessary condition start-up complex." In the United States, this complex as of December 28, 2025); Anduril, a unicorn CIGI Papers No. 352 - March 2026 · Dan Ciuriak