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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
