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In the battle against IEDs, new detect capabilities

In the battle against IEDs, new detect capabilities

by Editor | Mar 25, 2022 | Combat Capability, News, Procurement

by Ken Pole   The bane of modern armies waging asymmetric warfare against non-state enemies, improvised explosive devices (IED) have been around for more than a century. Their first documented use was by the Germans to cover their retreat during the Battle of the...
A Star Wars experience: Royal Highland Fusiliers test future vision systems in live-fire trials

A Star Wars experience: Royal Highland Fusiliers test future vision systems in live-fire trials

by Editor | Dec 20, 2021 | Combat Capability, Equipment, News

Photo: Pte Robert Kingerski   by Lt (N) Andrew McLaughlin   It isn’t often an infantry soldier gets to help test kit so vital to their craft way before it’s available for training or use on the battlefield. A program spearheaded by Defence Research...
Harvesting Insight: How combat simulation and data farming are playing a pivotal role in Army acquisition projects

Harvesting Insight: How combat simulation and data farming are playing a pivotal role in Army acquisition projects

by Editor | Sep 3, 2021 | News, Procurement, S&T

by Maude Amyot-Bourgeois and George Nikolakakos   Computer wargaming and combat simulation have a long tradition of providing valuable and economical decision support to often costly and complex Canadian Army equipment upgrade and replacement projects. These...
Combat simulation: How the Army is revitalizing a critical experimentation capability

Combat simulation: How the Army is revitalizing a critical experimentation capability

by Editor | Feb 11, 2021 | News, Training System

La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by George Nikolakakos and Maude Amyot-Bourgeois   “Shall we play a game?” – WOPR supercomputer in the 1983 film WarGames In 1983, as movie theaters were screening the popular fictional...
Feeding JAWS: A data-gathering exercise that will fuel AI applications for Joint Fires

Feeding JAWS: A data-gathering exercise that will fuel AI applications for Joint Fires

by Editor | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Procurement

by Chris Thatcher   How do you train an artificial intelligence algorithm? Feed it data; lots and lots of data. “For the AI to work well, it needs variety,” explained Dr. Mélanie Breton, a defence scientist with the Tactical Surveillance and Reconnaissance...
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