Canadian Security Material Technologies Roadmap - Vehicle Armour

Mass migrations, asymmetric conflicts, terrorism, climate change, constrained defence budgets, ubiquitous information technology, low cost sensors, increased cybersecurity challenges, increasingly severe weather events, integration of sensors and information systems into land forces, increasing CBRN threats, emerging directed energy weapons, globalisation

Increased need for humanitarian and disaster support , climate change, constrained defence budgets, multinational operations, natural resource scarcity, shift in economic and policitical power from North America and Europe to Asia, increased automation in military, aging population bulge in North America and Europe, weapons proliferation, severe weather events, increased defence spending by India, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Turkey & UK.

Predominently urbanised societies and rise of megacities, rise of human performance optimisation, increased state-state conflict, conflicts in multiple, dispersed locations, artificial intelligence in defence applications, increasing need for 'safe zones', mainstream use of automation and robotics, development of genetic weapons, blurred lines between policing and warfare.