Kongsberg Maritime and the British Columbia Institute of Technology have announced a CA$ 76.5 million investment to establish the Marine Innovation Simulation Centre of Excellence in British Columbia.
The initiative is designed to strengthen maritime innovation and skills development, support applied research and long-term capability building, and advance key objectives outlined in Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy.
The new simulation centre at BCIT will be built around Kongsberg Maritime’s simulation technology, providing a synthetic environment, development tools and application programming interfaces to support collaborative applied research with Canadian industry, academia, defence and public sector stakeholders.
The facility will serve as a platform for prototyping, human factors studies, testing, and accident and incident analysis, with applications spanning maritime safety, autonomy, cyber resilience, critical infrastructure, port development and low and zero-emission operations.
The investment will directly support improved facility infrastructure, the onboarding of applied research expertise and faculty, and ongoing research and development programmes.
The centre will also accelerate commercialisation opportunities and contribute to the development of sovereign Canadian capability in a strategically important sector of the national economy.
