Ottawa-based H2 Analytics Inc. will receive $800,000 from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) toward a defence and security training software project worth more than $4.2 million. Parliamentary Secretary Mona Fortier announced the funding on behalf of Evan Solomon, the minister responsible for the agency.

The project will upgrade H2 Analytics’ Exercise Architect Suite (EASE). FedDev Ontario describes EASE as an artificial intelligence-driven platform that streamlines the development and deployment of intelligence simulations at scale. The upgrades are intended to support more complex exercise design and management, multilingual coordination, and better system performance as demand increases.

H2 Analytics also plans to use the project to accelerate its expansion into international markets.

EASE gives exercise staff tools to create entities, generate intelligence injects and reports, schedule event traffic, manage changing scenarios, and integrate live, virtual and constructive inputs. H2 Analytics says the suite’s AI-enabled data and report creation tools can produce, edit and schedule injects with minimal input from intelligence experts.

The Canadian Army used EASE during Exercise Tactical Star 23, when the software generated 250,000 individual data points and about 1,400 reports. These included simulated sensor outputs, such as ground moving target indicator radar tracks and electronic intelligence emissions, tied to events within the simulation.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer Hugo Hodgett said the company also simulated classified sensor suites that had previously been unavailable to an intelligence training audience. For Tactical Star 23, the unit had moved from Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation software to Raytheon’s Advanced Battlespace Computer Simulation System, which supports division and brigade events.

H2 Analytics says its software serves military, intelligence, law enforcement and emergency response organizations. Its engineering work focuses on generative AI features that use large language models to produce training content.

EASE originated in the company’s own exercise delivery work. Chief Operating Officer Karl Payeur has described how a client asked how H2 Analytics was building an exercise it had delivered, then asked about the tools used to create it.

The company was founded in 2017 and is owned by a Canadian Armed Forces veteran. Alongside EASE, it offers training, custom plugin development and deployment support for the Team Awareness Kit (TAK). Its listed workforce is between 11 and 50 employees.

H2 Analytics placed 12th nationally in the Companies-to-Watch category of Deloitte’s 2025 Technology Fast 50 program. Invest Ottawa said at the time that the company was expanding its work with the Department of National Defence, allied militaries and other partners.

The FedDev Ontario commitment follows earlier federal support for EASE. A public record lists a National Research Council contribution for EASE simulation integration.

Hodgett said the new funding “will help us hire highly skilled Canadians while accelerating the next phase of EASE development”. The announcement does not specify a job count, the FedDev Ontario program stream or a schedule for delivering the upgrades.

Fortier said the investment would help H2 Analytics “expand its reach” and continue developing software for “defence and security organizations around the world”.

The H2 Analytics profile covers the company’s broader work. Related reporting examines H2 Analytics and the other vendors named in MAIple Stack; their roles in that initiative remain undisclosed.