Ottawa, ON — May 29, 2026 — Farpoint Technologies brought Fabric, its sovereign coding platform for mission-critical software in regulated industries to CANSEC 2026, Canada's largest defence and security gathering. It was Fabric's first public showing to the Canadian defence community, and it landed at a moment when the country is moving to rebuild sovereign capability across the sectors it can no longer afford to outsource.

The case for self-reliance

In February 2026, the federal government launched its Defence Industrial Strategy, a generational reset of how Canada invests in its own industrial base. Digital Systems sits among its priorities. The direction is set. The harder half of the problem is execution.

Across defence, the software that runs critical systems was written decades ago, by engineers who have long since moved on. The code is aging. The documentation is incomplete. The institutional memory has retired. And the AI tools transforming developer productivity elsewhere in the economy were not built to operate inside the security perimeters, compliance regimes, and air-gapped environments that defence work requires.

"Canada has made the commitment. The strategy is clear, and we agree with it," said Nicholas Ning, Co-founder and CEO of Farpoint. "The constraint now is execution. The systems the country most needs to modernize are exactly the ones consumer AI tools can't touch. That's the gap Fabric was built to close."

Introducing Fabric

Fabric is a sovereign coding platform for the developers and engineering teams that off-the-shelf AI tools were never designed to serve. It is built for organizations operating under compliance, sovereignty, and data-residency constraints that rule out cloud-native, US-hosted alternatives. Data, code, and intellectual property stay under Canadian or customer control, and the platform is deployable in air-gapped environments.

For defence, that design is the point. Fabric helps Canadian defence organizations and their suppliers modernize legacy software and build new systems faster, without the code or the IP ever leaving the country. It gives engineering teams a context-aware, human-in-the-loop layer that produces predictable, explainable output in environments where the cost of getting it wrong is not measured in a missed deadline.

"Defence software doesn't get to fail quietly," Ning said. "Our customers work where the network can be cut, the audit is real, and the IP cannot leave the building. We built Fabric for that environment first, not as an afterthought."

Canadian platform for a Canadian mandate

Fabric was built in Canada, and reflects Canada's strengths in AI research and pragmatic engineering. The problem it addresses is not unique to Canada. Defence establishments across allied markets face the same demographic and technical pressures: aging codebases, retiring engineers, and rising security expectations that rule out the consumer-grade tools dominating the broader market.

Farpoint's view is that Canada should build the infrastructure of the agentic era rather than buy it from somewhere else. CANSEC was the right room in which to say so.

"There is a moment where Canada gets to decide whether it builds the infrastructure of the agentic era or imports it," Ning added. "We'd rather build it here, with the people who already understand the mission."

About CANSEC

CANSEC is Canada's premier defence and security trade show, hosted annually by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). The 2026 edition convened roughly 12,000 attendees and more than 300 exhibitors at the Cohere Centre in Ottawa on May 27–28, 2026.

About Farpoint

Farpoint is a Canadian applied research firm building AI systems for enterprises and public institutions operating under real-world constraints. The firm partners with global organizations to design, implement, and scale AI initiatives that deliver sustainable business impact, and develops Fabric, a sovereign coding platform for mission-critical software in regulated industries. Farpoint is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with active commercial operations in Canada, Japan, and allied markets.

Fabric helps Canadian defence organizations and their suppliers safely modernize legacy software and build new systems faster, keeping data, code, and IP inside Canada. Built for high-security, sovereign environments, Fabric supports Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy under Digital Systems. Backed by an active NRC IRAP Defence R&D engagement.

Press inquiries: press@farpointhq.com