In COBALT, a C2 backbone

In COBALT, a C2 backbone

by Ian Coutts   When Thales Canada’s Neil Marshall, director of strategy, explains the problems that bedevil the Army’s command and control (C2) communications in the field, you get the feeling he’d like to give the boot to that adage about generals forever...
Is there a Canadian Army approach to JADC2?

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)...
Rapid military bridge evaluation software

Rapid military bridge evaluation software

by Andrew J. MacDonald and R. Gordon Wight   For modern mechanized militaries, mobility is critical. In Field Manual 3-90.2 The Tank and Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force, nearly a fifth of the pages of the main body of this document mention the word...
Future network concept

Future network concept

La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. For an organization that normally looks 10 to 15 years into the future, conceptualizing the Army’s near-term tactical network architecture is a bit of a departure for the Canadian Army Land...
Follow the process

Follow the process

La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais.   Sorry, there are no secrets to fast-tracking the process of Canadian Army equipment procurement. After almost four years as Director of Land Requirements (DLR), one of longest serving in...