Feds spent at least $1.7-billion on defence contracts in the first half of 2025, about 16 per cent of which went to U.S. companies: data

U.S.-based companies received more than $68.6-million in DND contracts between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2025, which is a 24-per-cent increase over the same period the previous year.

A Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130J Hercules aircraft, designed and manufactured by American defence company Lockheed Martin, flies over the Kuwait desert on June 13, 2020. Photograph courtesy of the Canadian Armed Forces

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BY IREM KOCA

August 11, 2025

The federal government spent more than $1.7-billion on defence contracts in the first half of 2025, according to new data from the Department of National Defence and Public Services and Procurement Canada, the two federal departments responsible for military and related purc...

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