by Editor | Mar 12, 2026 | News, Operations
by Chris Thatcher When Canada plays host to an event like the G7 Summit, it triggers a rare approval process within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) — use of force on domestic soil. As Joint Task Force Cadence was standing up in the fall of 2024 to lead the CAF...
by Editor | Aug 2, 2025 | Army Reserves, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher Training with equipment you might one day deploy with seems a given, but at times it has been an issue for members of the Army Reserve. That was apparent to Major Saajan Sarai, Operations Officer for 39 Signal Regiment, following a rotation in...
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 | Apr 10, 2021 | News Releases
March 30th, 2021 – Ottawa – KWESST Micro Systems Inc. has established an ATAK Centre of Excellence in Ottawa. The centre will facilitate customer requirements for integration into the U.S. battlefield management application known as ATAK (Android Tactical Assault...