Spine Untapped: The Army’s digital backbone
by Chris Thatcher Of all the projects queuing up in the procurement pipeline, none could have a greater impact on the Army’s operational digital transformation efforts than Land C4ISR. Sometimes called the digital spine, the program of six individual projects...
Big Wrecker
by Ken Pole Whether helping with civil disaster management at home or overseas on a combat mission, the Canadian Army has a daunting challenge when it comes to recovering damaged vehicles, despite having about 130 platforms designed specifically for the role....
Harvesting Insight: How combat simulation and data farming are playing a pivotal role in Army acquisition projects
by Maude Amyot-Bourgeois and George Nikolakakos Computer wargaming and combat simulation have a long tradition of providing valuable and economical decision support to often costly and complex Canadian Army equipment upgrade and replacement projects. These...
Trials and evaluations: The unit that can put any piece of equipment through its paces
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher You could do worse than borrow from the marketing campaign of Dos Equis: You might not always need an equipment trial, but when you do, use CATEU. Like The Most...
Urban Ops on Trial
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Allan Joyner For four days in mid-March, a section of soldiers from Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment, navigated through a village in the training area of...
Secret shelters: Modernizing joint deployable intelligence facilities
by Richard Bray Major Gaétan Noël is a soldier with many secrets. The procurement project he manages, Combined Joint Intelligence Modernization (CJIM), is creating the deployable facilities where top secret information will be received, discussed, analyzed,...
Ground trials: Soldiers to test UGV applications
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher Sometime in the next 24 months, light infantry soldiers could be asked to help test the utility of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). The Directorate of Land Requirements...
Unleashing culture: Getting (un)comfortable with digital transformation
by Mike Nelson We thrive in chaos – or at least we did, when we were young and facing unprecedented challenges when deployed early in our careers. Then we moved to Ottawa, and it was not long until we realized the days of getting our boots dusty in far-away...
A/CDS Message on the Fall of Panjwai
Many of us have been watching the reports coming out of Afghanistan with dismay. The fall of Panjwai, reported last week, has hit many of us particularly hard, and as we question our legacy, it serves as a harbinger for all Canadians who served in the country,...
A proposal for combined arms training for Reserve officers
by Kevin Wang and HengLiang Wu Combat results in the last decade indicate that an appropriate amount of time should be made available for combined arms training, especially for those who do not have experience in this regard. As the recent Nagorno-Karabakh War...
News Releases
- General Dynamics Land Systems selects KWESST Phantom electronic decoy for new U.S. military vehicle program
- Trellisware provides advanced networking waveform to Integrated Soldier System Suite
- Marshall appoints operations manager for Canadian land facility
- Manac joins General Dynamics team bidding for LVM fleet
- Tulmar awarded CAF life preserver contract