Integrating enablers: Experiments with a Combat Support Group on Ex Unified Resolve
by Chris Thatcher Over the past three years, 6 Canadian Combat Support Brigade (6 CCSB) has conducted an experiment to understand how best to integrate its myriad of enablers into a manoeuvre brigade headquarters. As the mechanized brigade ramps up its training...
> Engaging with industry
by Chris Thatcher Shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT last November, millions of people began interacting with the artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot, testing its abilities and fretting about its possibilities. For the military, it was a reminder of how...
Brigade strength
by Chris Thatcher There’s a fine art to force generating a multinational battle group. Partner nations are often occupied with their own national priorities and grappling with the limitations of their defence budgets, so building combat capability requires some...
CO and RSM appointments
Canadian Army commander LGen. Jocelyn Paul has released the following appointments under the authority of the respective Army Division Commands. The following are the Commanding Officer appointments for the 2023 active posting season (APS): 5th Canadian Division: Maj....
After the pandemic, Rangers unite on Ex Mobile Ranger
by Ian Coutts For the members of the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (3 CRPG), the return this year of Exercise Mobile Ranger was a welcome chance to refresh their skills, reforge old connections, and reach out to new partners. Held over February 21-28, Mobile...
Powering Ukraine’s resistance with innovative Canadian tech
by Treena Hein At this moment, made-in-Canada rechargeable ‘Batt Packs’ are being used by soldiers in Ukraine — and the company that makes them is hoping these innovative units will become a standard piece of field equipment for humanitarian efforts and armed...
Capabilities needed — urgently!
by Staff We’re not quite into “For the want of a nail ... the kingdom was lost” territory, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin. But for want of anti-tank weapons, air defence and counter-uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), defending troops, vehicles and headquarters in...
Spring 2023
This Issue Digital Experiments Integrating Combat Enablers Dispersed and Connected Command Better Industry Engagement IEDs: Detect and Defeat Defining LUV Planning Civil Assistance Reconstituting the Force
Is there a Canadian Army approach to JADC2?
by Dave Jones and Bruno Perron The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is either currently engaged with or intends to go to market with an impressive group of large-scale Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)...
Wargaming the information environment
by Sean W. Havel In July of 1870, in the spa town of Bad Ems, a polite conversation between a Prussian King and a French diplomat took place over the candidacy of a Hohenzollern prince to the Spanish throne. The two departed on good terms, despite the King’s...
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