Mr. Sean Homuth reports

KWESST AWARDED CONTRACT FROM ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE

Kwesst Micro Systems Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to deliver training and certification to the force's lead team awareness kit (TAK) users and trainers. The OPP is Canada's largest police force next to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and has a force of 5,800 uniformed officers.

"Though the value of this contract is modest, it is a key first step in enabling the OPP to unlock real-time TAK-enabled communications and situational awareness for all response teams and frontline officers," said Sean Homuth, Kwesst's president and chief executive officer. Under the contract, Kwesst will train and certify instructors from the OPP's field support bureau, including representation from the tactics and rescue unit, aviation services, K9-unit, and emergency response team, teaching users across the force how to operate TAK in frontline operations.

Mr. Homuth added: "The opportunity to work closely with the OPP's premier users of TAK reaffirms Kwesst's leadership in delivering TAK-enablement where it can make the biggest difference -- in the hands of tactical operators and first responders to reduce response time and ultimately save lives. It's through close engagements with lead users like the OPP and other agencies that Kwesst has uniquely positioned itself to deliver TAK enablement to law enforcement and first responders through its Kwesst Lightning software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering."

Kwesst Lightning leverages the company's military digitization capabilities to provide a scalable cloud-based TAK-enabled situational awareness app for the public safety market for real-time shared information among frontline responders and commanders during critical, dynamic incidents. The system will allow users to build and select from a menu of different mission modules appropriate to the incident. Kwesst is already under subcontract with a national public safety agency to develop one such mission module for ground search and rescue (GSAR) operations for the community of law enforcement and volunteer organizations that conduct searches for thousands of lost people each year.

The benefit to users will be lightning-fast time to engagement, seamless interoperability with co-operating agencies, and limitless scalability in the cloud. "Our SaaS business model around Kwesst Lightning will make it very easy for organizations to have this capability without capital investment or maintenance costs, while achieving faster co-ordinated response to incidents that are often a matter of life and death," concluded Mr. Homuth.

In Oct. 18, 2023, the company announced that it expected to launch the first commercially available version for GSAR by mid-2024, and will continue to develop additional user-defined mission modules. As we continue to gather valuable user feedback, and also seek pilot user opportunities, the company expects to revise its timeline for full commercial availability to late calendar Q3 2024.

About Kwesst Micro Systems Inc.

Kwesst develops and commercializes breakthrough next-generation tactical systems for military and security forces. The company's current portfolio of offerings includes digitization of tactical forces for real-time shared situational awareness and targeting information from any source (including drones) streamed directly to users' smart devices and weapons. Other Kwesst products include countermeasures against threats such as electronic detection, lasers and drones. These systems can operate stand-alone or integrate seamlessly with original equipment manufacturer products and battlefield management systems, and all come integrated with TAK. The company also has a new proprietary non-lethal product line branded Para Ops with application across all segments of the non-lethal market, including law enforcement. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with representative offices in London, United Kingdom, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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