9 juin 2024 | Local, Terrestre
We can no longer conduct business as usual - Skies Mag
Remarks from Rich Foster, vice-president of L3Harris Technologies Canada, to attendees of this year's CANSEC defence and security trade show.
19 octobre 2020 | Local, Naval, C4ISR
Canadian Navy : The Canadian Surface Combatant – More than Just a Ship
More than Just a Ship
With the release of Canada's defence policy Strong, Secure, Engaged in 2017, the Government of Canada signaled its commitment to renewing the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) fleet.
As part of an effort to deliver a Blue Water Navy built around the ability to sustain two naval task groups of up to four combatants and a joint support ship, supplemented when warranted by a submarine and maritime air assets, the government committed to the acquisition of 15 Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC).
The effort to procure these vessels represents the centrepiece of the National Shipbuilding Strategy - the largest procurement in Canadian history - and certainly one of its most complex, spanning over three decades
Lockheed Martin Canada, the successful bidder in a lengthy but fair, open and transparent bid process, proposed a CSC concept design based on the United Kingdom's (UK) Type-26 Global Combat Ship, currently under construction. With this selection, Canada joins the UK and Australia who are leveraging the Type-26 Global Combat Ship design into their future fleets.
The CSC is Canada's next generation warship, which will eventually replace both the recently retired Iroquois-class and today's modernized Halifax-class. Capabilities from both classes will be modernized and future-proofed to ensure not only that systems stay relevant for years to come, but more importantly that tomorrow's sailors have the equipment they need when sent into harm's way. It forms part of a broad vision of defence capabilities that will serve Canada's defence interests well into the latter half of the century.
A Warship at its Core
At its core, the CSC is being designed to be combat capable through the marriage of high-tech equipment and highly trained RCN sailors - able to conduct air, surface, sub-surface and information warfare missions simultaneously. The crews will be trained and organized to be capable of conducting warfare operations 24/7 and to both fight the ship and respond to any damage sustained simultaneously.
Survivability, a key principle that shaped CSC requirements from the outset, refers to the ability to protect the crew onboard, maintain combat effectiveness under fire, and bring our sailors home safely on completion of the mission. This principle is reflected in ship requirements that include the military design standards for critical shipboard systems, levels of protection from blast and fragmentation, reduced signatures, a battle damage control system and, of course, the full suite of sensors and weapons the ship carries to defeat threats.
The Operational Capability of CSC, or its ability to deliver credible and relevant effect, was also top of mind to ensure that the ship could deliver on the mission set outlined in Canada's defence policy Strong, Secure, Engaged.
The design and capability fit aims to deliver a highly versatile ship that is multi-role in nature, and that affords the greatest range of capability. This outcome translates directly into agility and responsiveness for the RCN, including re-rolling a deployed ship from one mission to another, without returning to port.
The ship will be able to a perform a broad range of missions with North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), 5-Eyes nations, NATO, coalition partners, and here in Canada with other government departments and agencies.
CSC will have decisive combat power for operations at sea, and in support of joint-force operations ashore. The versatility of the design will also ensure the RCN is well enabled to support missions for counter-piracy, counter-terrorism, intelligence and surveillance, interdiction and embargo operations, as well as provide support for humanitarian assistance, Search and Rescue, and law/sovereignty enforcement.
The ship's capability suite includes:
- Four integrated management systems, once each for the combat system, platform systems, bridge and navigation systems and its cyber-defence system
- A digital beam forming Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar and solid state illuminator capability
- The USN Cooperative Engagement Capability sensor netting system
- A vertically launched missile system supporting long, short and close-in missile defence, long-range precision naval fires support and anti-ship engagements
- A 127mm main gun system and dual 30mm gun mounts
- A complete Electronic Warfare and countermeasures suite
- A fully integrated underwater warfare system with bow mounted sonar, towed low frequency active and passive sonar, lightweight torpedoes and decoys
- Fully integrated communications, networking and data link capabilities
- CH-148 Cyclone multi-role helicopter, multi-role boats and facilities for embarking remotely piloted systems.
A Node in a System of Systems
More broadly speaking, the CSC will also serve as a node in a broader system of systems, all of which are geared to ensuring that Canada is strong at home, secure in North America and engaged in the world. This system includes space-based assets, intelligence networks, advanced Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection platforms, and shore-based command and control facilities.
As part of this approach, the RCN will also take interoperability to the next level, enabling systems integration both with other Canadian Armed Forces capabilities and our closest allies.
Designed with a communications and information systems architecture that will enable it to share significant amounts of data, it will contribute to a modernized North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), and better enable the RCN to leverage and support its closest allies on operations abroad.
With its sensor-netting capability, which is also employed in the United States and Royal Australian navies, the CSC will have a significantly greater ability to defend itself against highly sophisticated threats.
Finally, the ship will be digitally integrated with the RCN/CAF/DND enterprise ashore, in keeping with the RCN's Digital Navy strategy. It is being carefully designed from the outset with digital requirements in mind, with a view to leveraging new technologies in maintenance and materiel management, supply chain management, logistics, training, operational support, as well as operations.
A Workplace and Home for Tomorrow's Sailors
Ships are only as good as the sailors who sail them and going to sea has always involved some level of hardship, whether from the effects of the sea, the lack of privacy or simply the separation from family and loved ones.
In keeping with an intent to ensure the Navy affords a safe, welcoming and inclusive workplace to all its members, the RCN is looking at the hardships of going to sea and aiming to lighten them in the CSC.
Over the past several months a small team, comprised mostly of junior-level sailors, looked at the CSC design through a habitability lens and provided advice on those areas that sailors felt were most important to them.
The team surveyed close to 3,000 members of the RCN and looked at everything from privacy, personal storage, sleeping quarters, mixed messing, mess occupancy, heads and wash-places, laundry facilities, digital connectivity, fitness facilities, recreation lounges and dining.
The three most significant priorities highlighted were in the areas of privacy, the ability to digitally connect with families ashore and improved fitness facilities. The RCN is now working to see how this feedback might be incorporated into the design of CSC, to produce a ship that can better accommodate tomorrow's sailors and ensure that we remain committed to People First, Mission Always.
A Significant Opportunity for Canadian Industry
What lies ahead for a world-class industry team, led by Irving Shipbuilding Incorporated, Lockheed Martin Canada and BAE Systems, truly represents an immense opportunity. It all begins with ensuring the best equipment and right level of integration to enable and protect sailors in the future, so they can deliver on their mission.
Next is the opportunity that comes within each line of effort related to the overall program: naval design, systems integration, shipbuilding, training development, and shore-based infrastructure.
In each area, industry partners have a chance to adapt world-leading best practices, introduce new innovative approaches in their respective areas and leverage the best in modern technologies to make value-chain improvements.
For example, the RCN is already involved with the CSC industry team in using a model-based systems engineering approach that will establish the foundation for the eventual creation of a digital twin of the ship, as well as a baseline digital thread that will facilitate the Navy's ability to capitalize on a variety of digital technologies in the future.
The last area of opportunity lies in capitalizing on the benefits that come with three nations all building a surface combatant using the same baseline design.
Examples include pursuing supply chain economies of scale, cooperating on design and engineering packages, sharing lessons learned in design and build practices, and collaborating on the development of training products.
These areas of opportunity were spurred by Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy, which aims to not only deliver Canada's Navy and Coast Guard the ships they need, but also to create a sustainable marine sector in Canada, and contribute economic benefits and highly skilled jobs to Canada's economy.
Conclusion
The CSC is more than just a ship - it represents a national endeavour to safeguard Canada's defence needs.
It is being designed from the keel up to be multi-purpose in its capabilities, affording Canada the ability to deploy it across a broad spectrum of mission sets, and agility to adapt to a new mission, in hours not days or weeks.
It is a significant component in a much broader system of systems, where interoperability is being elevated to integration, and digital technologies and data are leveraged as capabilities.
It offers a floating environment that balances hard steel and high tech against the habitability needs and desires of today's young sailors - a home away from home.
And finally, it offers a tremendous opportunity for Canadian industry to take on a complex challenge and deliver in a world-class and innovative way.
The Canadian Surface Combatant - the right ship for the RCN and Canada.
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31 mai 2023 | Local, Autre défense
Le gouvernement du Canada aide l’industrie de la défense à se protéger contre les menaces à la cybersécurité
Le 31 mai 2023 - Ottawa (Ontario) - Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada Le gouvernement du Canada est déterminé à mettre en œuvre des mesures de cybersécurité robustes, ce qui est fondamental pour la stabilité économique et la sécurité nationale du Canada. Aujourd'hui, l'honorable Anita Anand, ministre de la Défense nationale, au nom de l'honorable Helena Jaczek, ministre des Services publics et de l’Approvisionnement, a annoncé que le gouvernement du Canada élaborera et mettra en œuvre un Programme canadien de certification en matière de cybersécurité qui se traduira par la mise en place d’exigences de certification obligatoires dans certains contrats de défense fédéraux, et ce, dès l'hiver 2024. Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada (SPAC), en partenariat avec la Défense nationale et le Conseil canadien des normes, dirigera les efforts du gouvernement du Canada pour établir ce nouveau programme. Des séances de consultation menées auprès de l'industrie de la défense et d'autres intervenants clés devraient commencer à la fin de 2023. L'industrie canadienne de la défense est fréquemment visée par des activités cybernétiques malveillantes qui ciblent les entrepreneurs et les sous-traitants et qui menacent la protection des renseignements fédéraux non classifiés. Afin de protéger les chaînes d'approvisionnement essentielles à la défense du Canada, il est impératif que le pays prenne des mesures à cet égard. Sans certification, les fournisseurs canadiens risquent d'être exclus des futurs marchés publics internationaux de défense. Le nouveau programme aura l’objectif de réduire la charge de l'industrie en visant la reconnaissance mutuelle entre le Canada et les États-Unis, ce qui permettra aux fournisseurs canadiens certifiés d'être reconnus par les deux administrations. Citations « Les menaces qui pèsent sur la cybersécurité sont complexes et évoluent rapidement, et dans le domaine de l’approvisionnement de défense, les cyberincidents constituent une menace à la protection des renseignements fédéraux non classifiés. C'est pourquoi nous prenons des mesures afin de protéger notre chaîne d'approvisionnement de défense en mettant en place un Programme canadien de certification en matière de cybersécurité pour protéger la population et les entreprises canadiennes. » L'honorable Helena Jaczek Ministre des Services publics et de l’Approvisionnement « La cybersécurité est la sécurité nationale. Au gouvernement et dans le secteur privé, nous devons modifier nos pratiques en fonction d’un environnement de sécurité en évolution. Aujourd’hui, nous présentons un plan afin d’améliorer la résilience des chaînes d’approvisionnement de la défense. Ce Programme de certification en matière de cybersécurité contribuera à faire en sorte que les Forces armées canadiennes aient les outils sécurisés nécessaires pour répondre aux exigences opérationnelles, dès maintenant et dans le futur. Cette certification augmentera la confiance à l’égard de la résilience des fournisseurs canadiens. Par conséquent, notre industrie de la défense de classe mondiale en bénéficiera aussi, et elle sera encore mieux placée pour avoir accès aux possibilités d’approvisionnement de nos proches alliés. » L’honorable Anita Anand Ministre de la Défense nationale « Grâce à cette nouvelle certification, nous protégeons nos chaînes d’approvisionnement essentielles et nous veillons à ce que les fournisseurs canadiens puissent continuer de jouer un rôle clé au sein des chaînes d’approvisionnement de l’industrie de la défense des États-Unis, car ils sont indispensables à la croissance de notre économie, à la création d’emplois et à la prospérité des travailleurs partout au Canada. » L’honorable François-Philippe Champagne Ministre de l’Innovation, des Sciences et de l’Industrie Faits en bref Dans le cadre du budget de 2023, le gouvernement du Canada a affecté 25 millions de dollars sur 3 ans à la création d'un nouveau Programme canadien de certification en matière de cybersécurité pour les marchés de défense. Le nouveau Programme canadien de certification en matière de cybersécurité contribuera à maintenir l'accès des entreprises canadiennes aux marchés publics internationaux avec les proches alliés et partenaires du Canada, pour lesquels une certification obligatoire en matière de cybersécurité est exigée. L'accroissement de la résilience de la base industrielle de défense du gouvernement du Canada en matière de cybersécurité renforcera les objectifs du Plan d’action national en matière de cybersécurité et de la Stratégie nationale de cybersécurité du Canada. L'Évaluation des cybermenaces nationales 2023-2024 du Centre canadien pour la cybersécurité estime que les organisations canadiennes continueront d'être la cible de cybermenaces malveillantes par des acteurs parrainés par un État au cours des 2 prochaines années. Le Programme canadien de certification en matière de cybersécurité permettra de vérifier et de renforcer les mesures de cybersécurité prises par les entreprises de défense canadiennes afin de protéger leurs réseaux, leurs systèmes et leurs applications. Liens connexes Budget 2023 : Un plan canadien https://www.canada.ca/fr/services-publics-approvisionnement/nouvelles/2023/05/le-gouvernement-du-canada-aide-lindustrie-de-la-defense-a-se-proteger-contre-les-menaces-a-la-cybersecurite.html
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11 juin 2018 | Local, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR
DND unable to spend billions in equipment funds, pushing projects beyond next election
Murray Brewster National Defence fell $2.3 billion short in its plan to re-equip the military in the past year — a failing that one defence analyst says guarantees many important decisions on warplanes, ships and vehicles will be pushed beyond next year's election. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan revealed the figure Wednesday as he launched the department's long-anticipated investment plan at a major defence industry trade show in Ottawa. The plan is the Liberal government's spending roadmap for its defence policy, released a year ago, which pledged $6.2 billion in new capital spending in the first year. New figures show $3.9 billion was spent. Later in the day, the chair of the Liberal government's council of economic advisers underscored the importance of investment in the defence sector and how it will drive innovation in other sectors. "If we want to grow — and we can in Canada, and we want to grow more significantly — the defence sector is going to play an essential part in doing that," Dominic Barton said. Leading-edge military technology and the possibilities for its commercialization can transform the broader economy, he added. However, the investment plan presented by the Liberals on Wednesday leans heavily on refurbishing existing technology and equipment — mostly aircraft — in the coming decade. The Defence Capabilities Blue Print will see the air force's CF-18 fighter jets, C-140 Aurora surveillance planes, C-144 Challenger executive jets, C-150 Polaris refuellers and transports, CT-114 Tutor trainers and demonstration jets, C-149 search and rescue helicopters and CH-146 Griffons all given life extensions and upgrades. New aircraft, including drones, won't be introduced until the mid-2020s — or later. A defence analyst said that's no surprise since many major decisions will be pushed past the 2019 election. That means it will be up to the next government to make the tough decisions on how much to buy and how much to spend. "Unless we see an extremely busy June with a lot of announcements on milestone projects, a lot of the work is going to be left until later," said Dave Perry, an expert in procurement at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. "They're not moving ahead as quickly as they suggested in the defence policy." The government could leave even more money on the table this year. Figures compiled by Perry, using the federal government's own budget documents and records, suggest as much as $3 billion could go unspent on military equipment in the current fiscal period. The former Conservative government was repeatedly criticized for promising the military big things in terms of equipment, but rarely delivering and allowing allocated funds to lapse. That cash was eventually kicked back to the federal treasury and used for deficit reduction. DND gets to keep money, spend it later Sajjan said defence spending is now guaranteed in the fiscal framework, the government's long-term financial plan. That means National Defence gets to keep the money and spend it later. "We always know we might not need the extra funds, but they have to be there just in case," Sajjan said. "Rest assured, the unspent $2.3 billion dollars is protected. Those funds remain available when we need them." He defended the spending "delta," saying that 30 per cent of it comes because projects came in under budget. Another 42 per cent was because of delays by defence contractors. Approximately one-third, though, relates to the department's inability to make a decision — or develop specifications on time. Sajjan took a shot at the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper, which used to regularly publish its defence spending plans, but never had specific funding attached to individual projects. Conservative defence critic James Bezan said there is a disconnect between the government's defence policy and its spending plans as outlined in federal budget documents. "Nothing seems to match," said Bezan, who treats the federal budget as the last word in spending. There was no mention of National Defence in Finance Minister Bill Morneau's latest fiscal, presented in February. Defence officials insist that is because the department's spending is already accounted for in the fiscal framework. The federal Treasury Board, however, must approve funding on a project-by-project basis — and Bezan said that hasn't been done. "There's no money to do the things Sajjan is out there talking about," he said. "We are still dealing with the problems of getting procurement done in a timely manner and getting it done on budget." The head of a defence industry group — Sajjan's audience as he made the announcement — said the government does deserve credit for consulting more about projects ahead of time, but there are obvious shortcomings. "Any time funding moves to the right, it is a predictability problem for us. We want as as predictable and as stable funding as we can get," said Christyn Cianfarani, the president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries. "I still think, systemically, there is a problem and if we don't turn it upside down and shake it — the whole procurement system — and do things differently ... many, many things differently, we'll still see sluggishness in the procurement system." He said the Liberal investment plan is not "aspirational" and states clearly where the cash is coming from. The Conservative guidebook in the end "did not deliver for the men and women in uniform," Sajjan told the audience of defence contractors. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sajjan-dnd-equipment-funds-1.4683606