March 30, 2021 | Local, Aerospace
Op-ed: Canada’s next-generation fighter aircraft - Skies Mag
Why the Block III Super Hornet could be the right choice for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the best value for Canadian taxpayers.
September 26, 2022 | Local, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR
Canadian military faces shortage of recruits: `We are in an applicant crisis’ - National | Globalnews.ca
Recruitment cratered during the first year of COVID-19 as the military shuttered recruiting and training centres, in which only 2,000 people were enrolled in 2020-21.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9154586/canadian-military-shortage-of-recruits/
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June 7, 2023 | Local, Aerospace, C4ISR
Coming Soon: New funding and prizes for Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems challenge
New funding and prizes will be available for innovators at all developmental stages of counter-drone technology through the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (CUAS) challenge, launching this summer. Do you have a creative concept for this challenge, but need some funding to kick-start or continue your development? Do you have an innovative prototype that will soon be ready to demonstrate to the Canadian Armed Forces? In summer 2023, the IDEaS program will seek submissions for: New game-changing CUAS concepts that IDEaS will be funding for development with up to $2.5 million per innovator and up to $11 million in total available, and; CUAS prototypes that are ready to test and demonstrate at our 2024 CUAS Sandbox. May 27 to June 21, 2024, in Suffield, Alberta. Now with $2 million of total Sandbox prizes being awarded, with $1 million for first place, $500,000 for second place, and $250,000 for third place. Open to all CUAS technologies and concepts, with specific interest in kinetic, laser, microwave, and other hard-kill solutions. This concurrent approach of both lower readiness level concept development and higher level Sandbox demonstrations permits innovative solutions at any stage of development to apply and be eligible for potential funding. Further details and confirmation of funding amounts will be released with the call for applications in summer 2023. Subject to confirmation, applications will close in early October 2023 with innovator selections in November 2023! Visit the IDEaS website Sandboxes page to learn about our past 2019 CUAS and the 2022 CUAS Sandboxes. The IDEaS team
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July 30, 2019 | Local, Aerospace
First Ever Narrated Cockpit Tour and Aerial Refueling Video From The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Stealth Bomber In-Flight
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time in the 30-year history of the Air Force's B-2 stealth bomber program, a cockpit tour narrated by the pilot in-flight, as well as a start to finish aerial refueling video recently filmed in a B-2A “Spirit” stealth bomber cockpit while in-flight, is available for viewing at JeffBolton.org. The video is a product of Dallas-based film producer and radio personality Jeff Bolton, who is the only person in the 30-year history of the program to be allowed to fly and film in the ultra-secret jet. Bolton is working in partnership with Defense News in producing a multi-media series about the United States military's nuclear arsenal. The B-2 stealth bomber is a multi-role heavy bomber capable of deploying both conventional and nuclear weapons anywhere in the world from its home base at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. “It's no coincidence that the B-2 bomber's capabilities are being highlighted here in this new era of rising nation-state tensions between the United States, China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. This new in-flight cockpit video – demonstrating the global reach of the B-2 with aerial refueling – is why the B-2 remains one of the most feared weapons in the world,” said producer Jeff Bolton. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190729005196/en