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  10 août 2018 | Local, Aérospatial

  La Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) signe un contrat pour un dispositif d’entraînement au vol NH90 de Série CAE 700MR

  CAE a annoncé aujourd'hui qu'elle avait remporté un contrat de la New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) visant à fournir à la Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) un dispositif d'entraînement au vol sur hélicoptère NH90 de Série CAE 700MR. Le contrat inclut également la fourniture de services de maintenance et de soutien à long terme dès la livraison du simulateur à la base Ohakea de la RNZAF en 2020. La valeur du contrat pour le dispositif d'entraînement au vol NH90 de Série CAE 700MR, y compris les services de soutien pendant la durée de vie utile et les options, est évaluée à plus de 50 millions $CA. CAE a récemment lancé le nouveau dispositif d'entraînement au vol de Série CAE 700MR (Mission Reality) au Salon aéronautique de Farnborough. Le CAE 700MR a été spécialement conçu pour l'entraînement au vol et aux missions des hélicoptères militaires. « L'utilisation accrue de simulateurs en Nouvelle-Zélande est la meilleure manière de former et de maintenir le nombre de pilotes dans la flotte », a déclaré Ron Mark, ministre néo-zélandais de la Défense. « L'accès à la formation sur simulateur au pays permettra de réduire le recours aux NH90 pour les vols de formation, en rendant les hélicoptères disponibles pour un plus grand nombre de t'ches opérationnelles ». Le dispositif d'entraînement au vol de Série CAE 700MR offre un environnement d'entraînement immersif et réaliste dans une plateforme à base fixe avec siège dynamique pour les vibrations et le mouvement. Le simulateur d'hélicoptère NH90 de la RNZAF sera équipé du générateur d'images CAE Medallion-6000XR et d'un écran visuel assurant un champ de vision extrême (240 degrés à l'horizontale sur 88 degrés à la verticale), idéal pour pratiquer et répéter les manœuvres à risque élevé, tels que l'appontage et l'atterrissage dans des zones confinées. « Nous sommes heureux que la New Zealand Defence Force ait une fois de plus fait confiance à CAE pour fournir un système d'entraînement haute fidélité et des services complets de soutien à la formation qui contribueront à la préparation aux missions des équipages d'hélicoptères NH90 de la Royal New Zealand Air Force », a déclaré Ian Bell, vice-président et directeur général de CAE, Asie-Pacifique/Moyen-Orient. CAE fournit actuellement à la NZDF des services de soutien à l'entraînement sur diverses plateformes, notamment les systèmes d'entraînement au sol T-6C à la base Ohakea de la RNZAF et les systèmes d'entraînement sur hélicoptère SH-2G(I) à la base Auckland de la RNZAF. https://www.cae.com/fr/nouvelles-et-evenements/communique-de-presse/royal-new-zealand-air-force-rnzaf-signs-contract-for-cae-700mr-series-nh90-ftd/

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  4 avril 2023 | Local, Naval

  Davie Shipyard joins Irving, Seaspan in national shipbuilding program | CBC News

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hailed the inclusion of Quebec's Davie Shipyard in the federal government's national shipbuilding program Tuesday as a major step forward for national industrial policy.

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  27 décembre 2018 | Local, Naval

  Feds, Irving ask trade tribunal to toss challenge to warship contract

  By Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — Dec 25 2018 OTTAWA — The federal government and Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding are asking a trade tribunal to throw out a challenge to their handling of a high-stakes competition to design the navy's new $60-billion fleet of warships. In separate submissions to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the federal procurement department and Irving say the challenge filed by Alion Science and Technology of Virginia does not meet the requirements for a tribunal hearing. Alion was one of three companies, along with U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin and Spanish firm Navantia, vying to design the new warships, which are to be built by Irving and serve as the navy's backbone for most of this century. While Lockheed was selected as the preferred bidder and is negotiating a final design contract with the government and Irving, Alion alleges the company's design did not meet the navy's requirements and should have been disqualified. Two of those requirements related to the ship's speed, Alion alleged, while the third related to the number of crew berths. Alion has asked both the trade tribunal and the Federal Court to stop any deal with Lockheed. But the government and Irving say the contract is exempt from normal trade laws, which the tribunal is charged with enforcing, because of a special "national security exception," meaning there is "no jurisdiction for the tribunal to conduct an inquiry." Another reason the challenge should be quashed, they argue, is that Alion is not a Canadian company, which is a requirement for being able to ask the tribunal to consider a complaint. Alion's challenge has been formally filed by its Canadian subsidiary, but the government and Irving say that subsidiary was never actually qualified to be a bidder in the competition — only its American parent. The responses from the government and Irving are the latest twist in the largest military purchase in Canadian history, which will see 15 new warships built to replace the navy's 12 aging Halifax-class frigates and three already-retired Iroquois-class destroyers. The trade tribunal ordered the government last month not to award a final contract to Lockheed until it had investigated Alion's complaint, but rescinded the order after a senior procurement official warned that the deal was "urgent." The procurement department has not explained why the deal is urgent. Lockheed's bid was contentious from the moment the design competition was launched in October 2016. The federal government had originally said it wanted a "mature design" for its new warship fleet, which was widely interpreted as meaning a vessel that has already been built and used by another navy. But the first Type 26 frigates, upon which Lockheed's proposal was based, are only now being built by the British government and the design has not yet been tested in full operation. There were also complaints from industry that the deck was stacked in the Type 26's favour because of Irving's connections with British shipbuilder BAE, which originally designed the Type 26 and partnered with Lockheed to offer the ship to Canada. Irving, which worked with the federal government to pick the top design, also partnered with BAE in 2016 on an ultimately unsuccessful bid to maintain the navy's new Arctic patrol vessels and supply ships. That 35-year contract ended up going to another company. Irving and the federal government have repeatedly rejected such complaints, saying they conducted numerous consultations with industry and used a variety of firewalls and safeguards to ensure the choice was completely fair. But industry insiders had long warned that Lockheed's selection as the top bidder, combined with numerous changes to the requirements and competition terms after it was launched — including a number of deadline extensions — would spark lawsuits. Government officials acknowledged last month the threat of legal action, which has become a favourite tactic for companies that lose defence contracts, but expressed confidence that they would be able to defend against such an attack. —Follow @leeberthiaume on Twitter. Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2018/12/25/feds-irving-ask-trade-tribunal-to-toss-challenge-to-warship-contract-2/#.XCT7OFxKjIU