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Software problems affecting the plane’s cockpit systems are among the problems plaguing the $2.2-billion C-295 project

Après avoir décroché près de 8 millions $ de contrats de l'armée canadienne, la firme de réalité virtuelle de Québec OVA pique maintenant la curiosité de l'armée de l'air américaine. «Ils nous ont trouvés gr'ce à une vidéo YouTube», raconte Harold Dumur, président fondateur de l'entreprise OVA, qui a mis au point l'outil StellarX permettant de créer facilement du contenu 3D.

While the digital transformation of the aviation industry has made air travel more efficient, new technologies are a double-edged sword serving as additional entry points for cybercriminals to cause disruptions.

A request for bids had been expected to be issued by the end of 2022, but National Defence confirms that won’t be happening.

Today, Canada celebrated another milestone in renewing the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) fleet with the delivery of the third Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Max Bernays.

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence says officials are looking into reports of engine fires on Chinook helicopters in the U.S. to determine the impact…

The report was completed in April by the Leadership Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University at the request of the Parliamentary Protective Service, which funded the research.

HMCS Harry DeWolf is expected back to conduct “force generation activities” in November and early December.

August 31, 2022 - Ottawa, Ontario - Department of National Defence Today, the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) released the Elsie Initiative Barrier Assessment report identifying barriers and opportunities for improving women's participation in United Nations (UN) peace operations. The Government of Canada launched the Elsie Initiative - a multilateral pilot project that develops and tests approaches to help countries overcome barriers to the meaningful participation of uniformed women in UN peace operations – in 2017, and has since played a leading role in its development. In December 2021, Minister of National Defence, Anita Anand, announced the initiative's extension. In 2019 Canada announced that the CAF would undergo the Measuring Opportunities for Women in Peace Operations (MOWIP) barrier assessment methodology in order to better understand the challenges facing women in the CAF in deploying to UN peace operations, and how the CAF can increase opportunities for Canadian women in such deployments. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2022/08/department-of-national-defence-and-canadian-armed-forces-release-elsie-initiative-barrier-assessment-identifying-barriers-for-women-in-un-peace-ope.html