KWESST Micro Systems Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Ontario Provincial Police ("OPP") to deliver training and certification to the force's lead Team Awareness Kit (TAK) users and trainers. KWESST LightningTM leverages the Company's military digitization capabilities to provide a scalable cloud-based TAK-enabled situational awareness app for the public safety market for real-time shared information among front-line responders and commanders during critical, dynamic incidents. The system will allow users to build and select from a menu of different "mission" modules appropriate to the incident.

KWESST is already under subcontract with a national public safety agency to develop one such "mission" module for Ground Search and Rescue ("GSAR") operations for the community of law enforcement and volunteer organizations who conduct searches for thousands of lost people each year. The benefit to users will be lightning-fast time to engagement, seamless interoperability with cooperating agencies, and limitless scalability in the cloud. "Our SaaS business model around KWESST LightningTM will make it very easy for organizations to have this capability without capital investment or maintenance costs, while achieving faster coordinated response to incidents that are often a matter of life and death," concluded Homuth.

In October 18, 2023, the Company announced that it expected to launch the first commercially available version for GSAR by mid-2024, and will continue to develop additional user-defined mission modules. As continue to gather valuable user feedback and also seek pilot user opportunities, the Company expects to revise its timeline for full commercial availability to late calendar third quarter 2024.