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• (02:16:21) - Eliot Pence, founder and CEO of Dominion Dynamics, discusses the company's mission to enhance Arctic surveillance by developing distributed mesh networks that integrate commercial off-the-shelf sensors across land, sea, air, and space domains. He highlights the strategic importance of the Arctic, noting Canada's underinvestment in the region and the need for improved situational awareness to secure it. Pence explains that Dominion Dynamics' technology enables Canadian Rangers to capture and transmit data from remote areas lacking communication infrastructure, thereby strengthening Canada's defense capabilities in the Arctic.
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