by Editor | Jan 28, 2021 | Equiment, News, Procurement
by Major Don Parker Potable water is essential to maintain life and conduct Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operations anywhere in the world, but local sources cannot always be trusted. The CAF consumes potable water from two primary sources: a large Reverse...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2020 | Combat Capability, News, Procurement
by Chris Thatcher When Canadian Army Light Forces next deploy into a conflict zone, it could be on a fleet of four-wheeled, lightweight, off-road vehicles. A request for information (RFI) went out to industry this fall to help the Directorate of Land...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2020 | News, Procurement
If ever there was a project that proved no defence acquisition is ever as straightforward as it seems, perhaps it is Tactical Power Systems (TPS). The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) inventory of tactical generators includes 50 different types, some 3,000 in all under 60...
by Editor | Nov 18, 2020 | News, Procurement
by Greg Burton In July 2019, National Defence announced the intention to procure approximately 55 to 75 Next Generation Fighting Vehicles (NGFV) to replace the existing High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) used by the Canadian Special Operations...
by Editor | Nov 12, 2020 | News, Procurement
Handgun manufactures could have a request for proposals (RFP) to mull over in the early New Year. The Department of National Defence intends to move forward with a project to finally replace the nine-millimetre Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol worn by Canadian...
by Editor | Oct 5, 2020 | Equiment, News, Procurement, Training System
by Ken Pole Some 1,600 years ago, when much of Europe was embroiled in conflict, a Roman scholar, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, wrote a treatise on military matters. In it, he counselled: “igitur qui desiderat pacem, preparet bellum,” which translates as...
