OUR MISSION
To help Canada assert and defend its sovereignty by providing ground and aerial tactical electronic warfare and surveillance systems.
CANADA TODAY
Canada’s Arctic is no longer insulated by geography or climate. Melting ice has opened new theatres of geopolitical tension, where drones, low-cost intelligent weapons, and asymmetric tactics bypass traditional defence systems. Snow Flea™ responds to this paradigm shift.
Integrated Solution
Fuses ISR sensors and Electronic Warfare (EW) equipment for stand-in force protection.
AI-Enabled
Onboard AI fuses sensor data into a tactical picture, enhancing human decision-making.
Environment-Ready
Cryogenic-rated sensors and energy storage operate reliably down to -51°C.
End-User Configurable
Long-range Towers and short-range Micro Pods, both configurable to the mission.
Modularity By-Design
Customizable radar, camera, infrared, and EW suite adapts to any mission profile.
Self-Powered
On-board wind turbines and solar panels simplify deployment in remote locations.
DESCRIPTION
Labforge Snow Flea™ is a ground-based tactical electronic warfare and surveillance system designed to protect Canada’s critical Arctic assets against modern, asymmetric threats. Deployed as either compact Micro Pods or long-range Towers, Snow Flea operates off-grid using a novel hybrid power system that combines solar panels, vertical axis wind turbines, and super capacitors specifically engineered for extreme cold.
Snow Flea integrates a multi-modal sensor suite including HDR EO/IR cameras, configurable long-range radar, military-grade seismic arrays, acoustic sensors, and SDRs for EW. At the core of the system is a distributed AI architecture. Specialized AI models on each node and the Command Centers work together to provide comprehensive situational awareness and generate actionable intelligence.
The system’s electronic attack capabilities include jamming, GPS spoofing, and AI-driven voice interjection into hostile radio communications. All intelligence and target data are seamlessly integrated into TAK to provide a common operating picture. By fusing multi-domain sensing with autonomous AI, Snow Flea offers a resilient and scalable solution for asset protection.
Snow Flea units come in two scalable configurations: Micro Pods and Towers.
Micro Pod
Compact, low-power, for dense, flexible deployment.
Detection
- 12MP low light stereo camera
- VGA thermal camera
- Short and long range optics
- Short range radar
- EW SDR
- Seismic sensors
- Acoustic sensing
Processing
- Ultra-low power target detection neural networks
Counter-Measures
- Jamming
- Spoofing
- Radio voice interjections
- LED Tripflare
Communication
- Iridium
- LoRaWAN
- WIFI-6E
Power Generation
- Solar
- Wind Turbine
Energy Storage
- For -50°C
- Supercapacitor bank
- Primary lithium backup
Tower
Long-range, high-performance installations for persistent overwatch.
Assembly
- Sectional tower
- 20ft, self-supported
- Above permafrost foundation
- Rinse solution
EO/IR Head
- 360° 25x Optical Zoom 8MP
- Low Light Camera, HDR, anti-fog, anti-vibration.
- VGA MWIR Thermal camera
- VGA LWIR Thermal
Radar
- 360° 3D Multi Modal AESA Radar, up-to 10km
- 360° 2D 20nm Marine Radar
Sensors
- Seismic Sensor Array
Electronic Warfare
- SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT, and EA Box
- High sensitivity and long-range antennas
Power Generation
- Scalable with Vertical Wind Turbines and Solar Panels
- Cryogenic application tested bearings for wet freezing environments.
Energy Storage
- Super Capacitors
Each Snow Flea Tower or Micro Pod captures and processes data at the edge using specialized state-of-the-art AI engines. Pre-processed data are sent to a distributed network of Command Centers for further processing, analysis and decision making.
Key features include:
- Full-spectrum situational awareness via fusion of visual, radar, thermal, seismic, and RF data.
- Edge AI, LLM, and multi-target tracking integration for real-time reporting, target correlation, and threat classification.
- Autonomous countermeasures including GPS spoofing, radio jamming, and signal deception.
- Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) designed with cryogenic rated components, solar panels, and super capacitors for sustained off-grid operation.
- Secure and redundant mesh communications via MANET, SATCOM, LoRaWAN, and Wi-Fi 6E.
- Real-time Common Operating Picture across thousands of Snow Flea units displayed over interoperable interfaces like TAK.
AI-Based Situational Awareness
A Snow Flea Command Center gathers incident reports from connected Snow Flea units. It uses an AI model to analyze the data and provide general situational awareness for the monitored area. The AI acts like a common brain to all the Snow Fleas.
INTER-OPERABILITY
Snow Flea integrates with the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK). TAK is designed for mobile devices but can also run on laptops and desktop computers.
Meshed AI Brain
Sporelink™ is a sovereign, policy-aware multi-modal fusion AI brain that turns sensor streams from aerial and fixed units into a real-time common operating picture (COP) at the tactical edge.
- Open architecture and unconstrained interfaces
- Deployable across all domains and interoperable
- Maintains explainability and performance in contested environments
A SHIFT FROM TRADITION
A constellation of ground-based electronic warfare pods, designed specifically to survive in the Arctic, is a pioneering approach. Labforge provides Canada a terrain-specific solution that rapidly and accurately identifies threats, enhancing system response capabilities.
ABOUT LABFORGE
Founded in 2013, Labforge builds unified situational awareness platforms that deliver resilient tactical defence in extreme, contested environments. Flagship solutions integrate radar, thermal, acoustic, and visual inputs to detect and track complex threats like drone swarms. Validated under Canadian defence innovation programs, Labforge provides a sovereign, open-architecture COP. Backed by three completed DND IDEaS contracts and a “Strongly Agree” rating on its IDEaS Integrator Assessment Scorecard, Labforge systems have been field-validated alongside the RCAF.
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ADDRESS
103 Bauer Pl, Suite 6,
Waterloo, ON, Canada
N2L 6B5
CONTACT
contact@labforge.ca
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