Canadian gunners serve as Queen’s guard
By Ian Coutts Surreal. That’s the word that Major Michael Crosier reaches for to describe the feeling of marching into the grounds of Buckingham Palace for the very first time on Oct. 4 at the head of a contingent from The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery...
Arctic mobility makes tracks
by Ian Coutts Call it the musk-ox of Canadian defence procurements. As other needed projects see costs balloon or timelines stretch out before them, the Army’s Domestic Arctic Mobility Enhancement (DAME) project, the search for a new vehicle suitable for use in...
FORCE Combat: An evolution in combat fitness
by Dr. Tara Reilly, Dr. Hans Christain-Tinglestad, Jacqueline Laframboise, Maj Nadia Worthington and LCol Matthew Sprague The development and evolution of a fitness objective or occupational fitness standard is likely a more complex and thorough process than...
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...
News Releases
- Rheinmetall awarded Canada’s Enhanced Recovery Capability project
- New player in tank production: Leonardo and Rheinmetall joint venture
- Ultra I&C wins $7 million contract for tactical data link support
- Allen-Vanguard receives follow-on order of SCORPION ECM systems for NATO ally
- Galvion receives follow-on Batlskin Caiman helmet order for Canadian DICE program