UCan Brave Tech and Volatus Aerospace Sign MOU to Build the Canada–Ukraine Defence Innovation Corridor
Ottawa, Ontario — May 28, 2026
UCan Brave Tech Centre is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Volatus Aerospace (TSX: FLT), a Canadian-headquartered global aerospace and defence company. This agreement marks a significant milestone in our mission to build a structured, trusted, and durable innovation bridge between Canada and Ukraine.
The MOU establishes a formal framework for collaborative innovation, commercialization, and industrial partnership development between Canadian and Ukrainian stakeholders. At its core, the agreement recognizes what both countries bring to the table: Ukraine's proven operational experience and battle-tested technological adaptability, and Canada's advanced industrial capacity, manufacturing expertise, and established commercialization pathways.
The partnership will focus on accelerating the identification, validation, and operational transition of emerging dual-use and defence technologies — with particular emphasis on autonomous systems, counter-UAS (CUAS), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), resilient communications, and autonomy software.
Volatus Aerospace will bring its deep capabilities in autonomous systems, manufacturing, systems integration, and lifecycle support. Through its operational footprint across Canada — including emerging defence-focused manufacturing and systems integration facilities in Mirabel, Quebec — Volatus will support the scaling of validated Ukrainian technologies for defence and security applications in allied markets.
UCan Brave Tech, as the bilateral architect of the collaboration, will lead strategic engagement with Canadian and Ukrainian stakeholders across industry, academia, government, and the broader innovation ecosystem. The organization will coordinate validation pathways, partnership development, and commercialization initiatives aimed at accelerating bi-national technology cooperation and operational adoption.
Ukraine has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for technological innovation under the most demanding real-world conditions. The conflict has compressed development timelines, sharpened requirements, and produced a generation of technologies that have been operationally validated at scale. Canada, in turn, offers the industrial depth, regulatory environment, and allied network to take those technologies from the battlefield to broader deployment.
This MOU is the first formal proof point of UCan Brave Tech's mandate in action — connecting Ukraine's ingenuity with Canada's industrial ecosystem in a way that is structured, accountable, and built for long-term impact.
"Our mission is to build the innovation corridor that connects Ukraine's battle-tested ingenuity with Canada's industrial depth, and to make that connection structured, trusted, and durable. This MOU is the first proof point." — Yuliia Marcinkoski, CEO, UCan Brave Tech
"Ukraine has demonstrated extraordinary technological adaptability under conflict environments, while Canada offers advanced industrial capacity, manufacturing expertise, and commercialization pathways. Together, these complementary strengths create meaningful opportunities to accelerate proven technologies into scalable operational capabilities." — Glen Lynch, CEO, Volatus Aerospace
The collaboration aligns directly with broader Canadian defence and industrial policy objectives: strengthening domestic technological capacity, diversifying the sovereign supply chain, and deepening cooperation with trusted international partners in strategically critical sectors. It also reflects the growing recognition within Canada's defence community that allied interoperability and operational relevance require engaging with partners who have direct experience in modern contested environments.
This MOU represents the beginning of a broader industrial coalition. UCan Brave Tech will continue to build on this foundation, engaging additional Canadian partners capable of scaling and commercializing technologies developed and proven in Ukraine for application across allied defence and security markets.
We are grateful to Volatus Aerospace for their leadership and commitment to this vision, and we look forward to the concrete outcomes this partnership will generate.
For additional information: UCan Brave Tech: Inga Biloskurska, Director, Communications
Volatus Aerospace Inc.Rob Walker, Chief Commercial Officer
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