Canadian Army turns to Calgary-based tech firm for real-time planning and coordination during Canada’s largest domestic security operation
Tacteris’s software enables military organizations to plan and synchronize operations across time, space, and terrain. During the 2025 G7 Summit—one of Canada’s largest domestic security operations—the Calgary-based tech firm provided the Canadian Army with real-time, terrain-aware command-and-control software.
“It’s like project management software, but for military operations,” said Sundeep Kharey, Vice President of Business Development at Tacteris. “But do it collaboratively, from many different locations, with unreliable and limited communications networks—that’s not an easy problem.”
Leading up to the summit, Army units had been using the U.S.-developed Tactical Awareness Kit (TAK) for positional tracking. While effective for situational awareness, its limitations as a planning tool quickly became apparent.
“Before Tacteris, the state-of-the-art focused on positional awareness—‘Where is everyone?’” Kharey explained. “But the harder question for commanders is: ‘So what? How do we plan the next bound? Who is doing what, where, when, and why?’ Turning awareness into coordinated action—again and again, as quickly as possible—that’s the real challenge we solve.”
The rugged terrain of Kananaskis further highlighted the need for Tacteris’s advanced 3D mapping technology.
“The Land Force Commander knew that the mountains, valleys, creeks, and trails were going to dictate how operations were planned,” Kharey said. “To meet that challenge, we engineered our own 3D mapping engine from the ground up—intuitive and high-performance for soldiers in the field. It really proved itself in Kananaskis—giving commanders instant insight into how terrain would shape their operations.”
“From signallers to snipers to the chief of staff, everyone took notice,” Kharey recalled. “At one point, someone asked, ‘Why isn’t this in the Commander’s pod yet?’—and the team installed it that same night.”
Although Tacteris technology had been procured under a Canadian government innovation program the previous summer, its operational deployment during the G7 was a last-minute decision—triggered by real-time breakdowns in legacy systems under operational pressure.
Fielding new software in live operations is often seen as risky. Tacteris’s performance during the summit challenges that notion.
“Conventional wisdom says it takes months, if not years, to integrate a new technology,” Kharey said. “But in this case, we did it in days—on-site in Kananaskis—and it worked exceptionally well. We see this in Ukraine and elsewhere: innovation can, and should, happen during operations—and it can succeed.”
“Overall, we’re very pleased with how Tacteris technology was integrated on short notice,” said Major Casey Gergely, Commanding Officer, 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron. “It proved its value and introduced us to a much better tool for HQ-level operations. The staff are fully on board.”
Kharey emphasized that this success story extends beyond software.
“This really is a story of cooperation between the government, Canadian innovators, and traditional large defence prime contractors,” he said. “When the strengths of each are brought together through mutual trust, flexibility, and a shared mission, the results speak for themselves.”
