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...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2023 | Equipment, News, Procurement
Since February 2022, the Canadian government has provided over $2.4 billion in military assistance to Ukraine. Some equipment was specifically acquired for the Ukrainian military, but much has come from the stocks of the Canadian Army, including Leopard 2A4 main...
by Editor | Aug 15, 2023 | News, Procurement
by Ken Pole In its June 2017 defence policy, the federal government used the word “vision” a lot but mostly in a generic contemplative way. However, tucked away on page 36 was a commitment to recapitalizing an outstanding requirement for new “soldier night...
