Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics signs an agreement with Tencore to manufacture uncrewed ground vehicles and add its command-and-control technology.
The Canadian
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October 13, 2026
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A new Canada–Ukraine defence partnership aims to move a ground-robotics design into manufacturing with Canadian software attached. Dominion Dynamics, based in Ottawa, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukrainian company Tencore to manufacture uncrewed ground vehicles and equip them with Dominion’s command-and-control system, The Globe and Mail reported October 13.
The agreement links two different parts of the production chain. Tencore brings the ground-vehicle technology; Dominion contributes the software intended to direct and coordinate it. These are vehicles operating on the ground, not aerial drones, a distinction that matters as uncrewed systems become a wider category of defence equipment.
The companies’ relationship began about a month earlier at an international defence exhibition in Poland. The speed of that progression illustrates how an industry meeting can become a proposed production partnership, although a memorandum of understanding should not be mistaken for evidence that finished vehicles have already been delivered.
The deal follows an agreement signed last month by Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to jointly produce uncrewed systems, counterdrone technology and munitions. It also fits a wider effort to help Ukraine shift manufacturing away from areas exposed to the war.
For Canada, the significance lies in translating a diplomatic commitment into an industrial relationship. The announcement establishes who intends to build and integrate the systems. Whether that intent produces sustained capacity will depend on the practical work of manufacturing, testing and delivery—not simply the signing of an agreement.
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