The Super Hornet economic return
As the U.S. Department of Defence prepares its final budget recommendations for 2014, there is considerable speculation about the long-term...
RIFL2E: Targeting access to ISR data
When the CP-140 Aurora long-range maritime patrol aircraft entered service in 1980, it was the most advanced anti-submarine warfare platform...
The Super Hornet approach to technology insertion
While Lockheed Martin has made much of the generational leap in technology that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter represents, Boeing...
JUSTAS for all … contingencies
If the Canadian Armed Forces were to design the ideal long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, it might resemble a flying...
Where do UAVs fit in Canada’s future?
Unmanned (uninhabited if you are gender-sensitive) aerial vehicles (UAVs) clearly have a burgeoning future in Canada and around the world....
Capability-based SOR for challenging SAR
Canada’s search and rescue (SAR) region of responsibility is arguably the most challenging in the world. Readers with an interest...
By the numbers: Revisiting the Joint Strike Fighter
We are coming up on a year since KPMG delivered its report to Treasury Board Secretariat on the total lifecycle...
Obst elected to AIAC board; industry faces innovation challenge
Johnathon “Lee” Obst, the managing director of Rockwell Collins Canada, has been elected to the board of directors of the...
Boeing delivers 5th Chinook
Boeing announced last week that it had delivered the fifth of 15 new CH-147F Chinook helicopters to the Royal Canadian...
Mission satisfaction: Rafale offers proven capability
As defence contractors await the results of the Canadian government’s evaluation of options to replace the RCAF’s fleet of CF-188s,...