Vertical Truck – Delivering 10,000 pounds to target
MMIST, an Ottawa company that helped to invent logistics UAVs (ULAV) with its Sherpa gliding and SnowGoose powered parafoils –...
Moving the chains forward
The Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (CCUVS) was incorporated as an independent not-for-profit company to serve Canada’s UVS industry...
Innovation investment: UVS sector needs reasonable regulations and R&D commitment
The phenomenal growth in the use of unmanned vehicle systems by the world’s militaries has contributed to the “coming of...
SITRep
Senate report questions generals’ rosy view For better or worse, the Canadian Forces have developed pride in their ability to...
Where is the debate?
Canada has important foreign policy choices to make; even no policy is in fact a kind of policy. Is it...
Road Work: Selecting the Canadian Forces new medium support vehicle
The heaviest weight Canada’s new Medium Support Vehicle will ever carry may well be the expectations of the men and...
Technology integration: Changing environment means more opportunity but more risk
As governments demand more for less with every defence procurement, system integrators face greater pressure to bring together myriad technologies...
When there’s no peace to keep
In September, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre announced it had secured $3.95 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International...
Transformation Imperative – The Canadian Forces information management challenge
Information management in the Canadian Forces must deliver timely and accurate information to decision makers in formats they can use....
Contributors to Africa’s plight
The Betrayal of Africa Gerald Caplan Groundwood Books, 2008 $11.00, 144 pages An antidote to the simplistic pronouncements of politicians...