by Editor | Oct 7, 2024 | C4ISR, News Releases
Oct. 7, 2024 — Ultra Intelligence & Communications (Ultra I&C) has been awarded a $7 million contract with the Canadian Armed Forces to support the Tactical Integrated Command, Control and Communication (TIC3) project, focused on enhancing Canada’s...
by Editor | Sep 18, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher The Army’s command-and-control (C2) footprint in Afghanistan was big and cumbersome, housed in large tents amid a sea of masts and emitting an electromagnetic signature for all to see. In a future conflict, it will need to be light and nimble,...
by Editor | Aug 21, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
In DDACSI, the Army is creating the nexus for a digital force and a continuous and interoperable capability development cycle. By Chris Thatcher Over the past 18 months on domestic operations and exercises, the Army has experimented with an interconnected but...
by Editor | Feb 7, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher Perhaps it was the communication plan, perhaps the sample size of the user evaluation, but when the Army rolled out the first cycle of a tactical smartphone-like computer system intended to network a platoon-sized formation, only some units...
by Editor | Jan 18, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher It wasn’t quite an unfair advantage, but it was certainly an edge. For the first time on Exercise Maple Resolve, the opposition force (OPFOR) came equipped with a tactical mesh network. And in a peer-on-peer scenario, where the speed of decision...
by Editor | Jan 23, 2023 | C4ISR, News
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher Six years ago, the Canadian Army acquired an Android-based Digitally Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) system that has fundamentally changed air-to-ground CAS...
