The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Calian Group is spearheading a $100-million investment in partnership with government and other industry stakeholders. The Globe's Pippa Norman writes that the goal is to establish a network of laboratories across the country where military and industry can collaborate on developing technologies essential for maintaining connectivity while operating in harsh Arctic environments. The investment is being orchestrated by Calian's newly created arm, Calian Ventures, which was established to help Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) scale up and sell to the Canadian Armed Forces, and eventually, abroad. Each lab will focus on bringing many of Calian's SME partners together with the Armed Forces to work on the development of C5ISRT, or Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting. C5ISRT is the framework that helps ensure everything used on the battlefield can talk to each other, allowing for faster and more well-informed decision-making. Calian's decision to focus its new initiative on building C5ISRT capabilities comes from a desire to have the technology be something that is built in Canada.