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Where $83.8 billion of ITB obligations stand
ISED reports $83.8 billion of ITB obligations, $23.4 billion of it not identified, as of 21 April 2025. The figures by status, checked monthly.
- Current ITB obligations, data as of 21 April 2025
- $83.8 billion
- Completed
- $40.1 billion
- In progress
- $20.3 billion
- Not identified, 27.9% of the total
- $23.4 billion
The table
Download the CSVIndustrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) obligations, current portfolio, by status. Unit: billions of dollars.
What the numbers show
Companies that win certain federal defence and security contracts take on Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) obligations: business activity they must carry out in Canada. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) reports $83.8 billion of current obligations, with data as of 21 April 2025. Contractors had completed $40.1 billion and had $20.3 billion in progress, $60.4 billion together. ISED lists the other $23.4 billion, 27.9% of the total, as not identified. The sum and the share are our arithmetic.
How we built the table
The four figures are the summary of the current portfolio on ISED’s Contractor progress page, modified 30 July 2026, which we read on 26 September 2026. We kept ISED’s labels and its billions of dollars to one decimal. Completed, in progress and not identified add up to the $83.8 billion total.
The page falls under ISED’s own terms and conditions (modified 20 June 2021); the Open Government Licence (Canada) doesn’t cover it. The acknowledgement on this page gives the title, the author and the link those terms ask for.
What’s missing
Nothing in ISED’s summary is left out. ISED also publishes a breakdown by contractor, which we don’t repeat here. The French version of ISED’s page dates the same figures 21 April 2024; we’ve used the English page’s date, 21 April 2025.
When we’ll check it again
ISED says the page is updated annually, and its figures are now 17 months old. We check it each month, next on 1 October 2026, and will update this page the day new figures appear.