General Dynamics Canada awarded contract on NATO surveillance program
General Dynamics Canada has been awarded a CA$32 million contract by Northrop Grumman Corporation for key communications network technology for...
RIMPAC exercises Canadian, coalition interoperability
The world’s largest maritime exercise wrapped up on August 3 following a month of scenarios to test coalition interoperability. Exercise...
Evaluating an unmanned asset
For more than a week, the ScanEagle circled silently over a suspected drug trafficker in the Arabian Sea, 1000 feet...
Interoperability Challenge: Demonstrating ISR data exchange
Information exchange is the lifeblood of militaries and multinational coalitions. If data cannot move between ground, air and maritime intelligence,...
Gathering ‘green’ intelligence
Green means much more on the maps and screens of those who make decisions in combat zones. This colour has...
New Focus: The operations imperative
As organizations such as the United Nations and NATO examine their mandates and corporations such as Nortel revolve CEOs through...
Honouring non-commissioned ranks
Prior to the Crimean War (1854 -1856), Britain and Commonwealth countries did not have an exclusive official gallantry award for...
The effect of Canada’s Jamaica Garrison
‘Effects based planning’, in military lexicon, describes a process for obtaining a desired strategic outcome. Canada’s deployment of a garrison...
Canadian organizations face new criminal liabilities
On May 9, 1992, twenty-six workers lost their lives in the Westray Mine in Nova Scotia as a result of...
The Wings of Fantasy or a Practical Alternative?
The entire airlift issue is a challenge,” a senior Air Force staff officer acknowledged in the Ottawa Citizen in October...