Industrial Benefits

With a proven track record of meeting Canadian IRB (Industrial Regional Benefits) programs, DEW provides value-added benefits to major OEMs.

The Canadian government created an IRB policy in 1986 to ensure that companies across Canada can derive benefits from major defense procurements. This policy is in place today and, in general, defense contracts over $100 million call for the Prime Contractor to make sub-contracts and investments in the high-tech sectors of the Canadian economy, in an amount usually equal to the value of the defense contract they won. www.strategis.ic.gc.ca

The sub-contracts and investments can be direct – that is, providing goods and services directly related to the items being purchased – or indirect.

Our facility in Miramichi, New Brunswick has the people, the skills, and the space and, with the support of the DEW Ottawa facility, the capacity to provide cost-effective Canadian value-added direct offset benefits to any vehicle or armor program.

Our Vehicle and Crew Protection, Airport Systems and Defense business units also offer potential for Indirect Offsets.

DEW's recent teaming with ArmorWorks for mine blast attenuating seats, aircraft ballistic seats and armor allows us to offer new and world-class survivability products for the Canadian market and as high-quality offsets for major US Prime Contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Textron, General Dynamics and all contenders for the upcoming Medium Support Vehicle System truck program.

If you need a Canadian partner for your offset program, contact thepresident@dewengineering.com.