by Editor | Mar 14, 2024 | Equipment, News, Procurement, Training System
What was once labeled a midlife upgrade is now a full modernization program. Over the past three years, Weapons Effects Simulation (WES) has transformed from an enhancement of the equipment the Army currently uses to capture weapons and other effects in training, to a...
by Editor | Mar 1, 2024 | News, Procurement
Leonardo has been awarded a contract by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) to provide its Falcon Shield C-UAS system for operation by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The company will provide a number of systems and a 10-year sustainment package that...
by Editor | Feb 14, 2024 | News, Procurement, Training System
By Canadian Army Today Staff When the Land Vehicle Crew Training System (LVCTS) eventually opens doors on five new simulation centres across the country, it will launch the Army into a new world of networked and immersive individual and collective training. An...
by Editor | Feb 1, 2024 | News, Procurement
by Ian Coutts When Canadian Army Today last checked in on the Domestic Arctic Mobility Enhancement (DAME) project in 2021, we likened it to a muskox. That implacable Arctic beast that, whatever the conditions, keeps plodding forward seemed a good stand-in for a...
by Editor | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Procurement
General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada has been identified as the preferred bidder to provide the Canadian Army with a new fleet of light and heavy logistics vehicles, equipment and in-service support, according to an announcement by Public Services and Procurement...
by Editor | Jan 7, 2024 | Equipment, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole When the federal government rolled out its June 2017 defence policy paper, it was packaged as “a long-term vision” for how Canada’s military could respond to a rapidly changing world. It was an ambitious vision built around a promise to spend...
