This document outlines a research orientation for developing a strategy to maximize employment and contracting opportunities for New Brunswick Aboriginal people with Irving Shipbuilding. Irving Shipbuilding will be building ships over 25 billion over 20-30 years, creating 11,500 jobs. Researchers will collect data on Aboriginal businesses and skilled workers to populate online databases. They will consult Aboriginal communities to design the strategy. The strategy will be finalized and presented in June 2014.