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  7 mars 2022 | Local, Aérospatial

  IDEaS Upcoming Opportunities | IDÉeS Opportunités à venir

  Le français suit Sandbox CUAS Detect and/or Defeat Challenge is closing soon! The closing date for the Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) 2022 Sandbox challenge is fast approaching! Don't miss your opportunity to bring your ‘A' game and demonstrate how your solution can detect and/or defeat our team of drones. Get your technology at the forefront where you will interact one-on-one with Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and RCMP end-users and science experts. Submit your application prior to 2 PM on April 13, 2022. Heads-up: new IDEaS challenges coming your way! Spring is upon us and the IDEaS program will soon be offering a breath of fresh air to its innovators. The Contests element will be launching a new challenge called Robot Round-up: Advanced robotics platforms and solutions. This next challenge invites the masterminds of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence domain to go head-to-head for a chance to win cash and bragging rights. Stay tuned for more information and timelines. Incoming! Competitive Projects will launch new challenges this spring. Keep your ears to the ground to find out what we have in store for our Canadian Innovators in this new call for proposals. Domains will include C4ISR, the arctic and Space-based Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance SB-ISR. Embark on a journey to take your technology to new heights through our Competitive Projects element. Seize your chance to work with the US Department of Defense The Defense Innovation Unit operated by the United States' Department of Defense (DoD) is inviting Canadian Innovators to submit their commercial solutions to help solve national security challenges. View their open solicitations now: Endpoint Accuracy: The DoD is seeking technology that will deflect or self-aim a standard issue round to its target. This technology will augment the system to increase accuracy against targets selected by the shooter. System characteristics include: software compatibility with small arms fire control systems; standardized interfacing for fire control flexibility; improved accuracy; and shortened time of engagement through the Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, and Assess (F2T2EA) process. Closes March 11, 2022. Autonomous Perimeter Security: The DoD is seeking to prototype an automated system of networked, collaborative sensors that can detect, track and identify potential intruders for perimeters in environments including forests, urban areas, coastlines, rivers and harbors. Closes March 14, 2022. L'Environnement protégé du défi Détecter et/ou Vaincre les systèmes aériens sans pilotes (CUAS) fermera bientôt ! La date de clôture de l'environnement protégé des systèmes aériens sans pilote (CUAS) 2022 approche à grands pas ! Ne manquez pas votre chance de démontrer comment votre solution peut détecter et/ou vaincre notre équipe de drones. Mettez votre technologie au premier rang où vous interagirez avec les utilisateurs et les experts scientifiques des Forces armées canadiennes (FAC) et de la GRC. Soumettez votre candidature avant 14 h 00 le 13 avril 2022. Attention : de nouveaux défis IDEeS arrivent ! Le printemps est à nos portes et le programme IDEeS offrira bientôt une bouffée d'air frais à ses innovateurs. L'élément Concours lancera un nouveau défi appelé Foules robots : Plates-formes et solutions de commande robotique avancées. Ce prochain défi invite les cerveaux du domaine de la robotique et de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) à s'affronter pour tenter de gagner des prix et des droits de célébrer. Restez à l'écoute pour plus d'informations. Nouveauté ! Les Projets compétitifs lanceront de nouveaux défis ce printemps. Restez à l'écoute pour découvrir ce que nous réservons à nos innovateurs canadiens dans ce nouvel appel de propositions. Les domaines comprendront le C4ISR, l'Arctique et le renseignement spatial, la surveillance et la reconnaissance SB-ISR. Amener votre technologie vers de nouveaux sommets gr'ce à notre élément Projets compétitifs. Saisissez votre chance de travailler avec le département américain de la Défense Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) gérée par le Department of Defence (DoD) des États-Unis invite les innovateurs canadiens à soumettre leurs solutions commerciales pour aider à résoudre des problèmes de sécurité nationale. Consultez leurs sollicitations ouvertes maintenant : Précision des points finaux (en Anglais seulement) : le DoD recherche une technologie capable de faire dévier ou de viser automatiquement une balle standard vers sa cible. Cette technologie augmentera le système pour accroitre la précision contre les cibles sélectionnées par le tireur. Les caractéristiques du système comprennent : la compatibilité logicielle avec les systèmes de contrôle de tir des armes légères ; interface standardisée pour la flexibilité du contrôle de tir ; précision améliorée; et raccourcissement du temps d'engagement gr'ce au processus Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, and Assess (F2T2EA). Fermeture le 11 mars 2022. Sécurité périmétrique autonome (en Anglais seulement) : le DoD cherche à prototyper un système automatisé de capteurs collaboratifs en réseau capables de détecter, de suivre et d'identifier les intrus potentiels pour les périmètres dans des environnements tels que les forêts, les zones urbaines, les côtes, les rivières et les ports. Fermeture le 14 mars 2022.

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  25 avril 2019 | Local, Aérospatial

  Canada's fighter jet tender competition (finally) takes off next month

  Murray Brewster · CBC News The politically charged competition to replace Canada's aging fleet of fighter jets will rocket forward at the end of May as the federal government releases a long-anticipated, full-fledged tender call. There are four companies in the running: Saab of Sweden, Airbus Defence and Space out of Britain, and the American firms Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Once the request for proposals is released, the manufacturers will have until the end of the year to submit bids, defence and industry sources told CBC News. It was the former Conservative government that kicked off the effort to replace the three-decade-old CF-18s in 2010, an attempt that was shot down in a dispute over the way the F-35 fighter was selected. The program became mired in politics when the Liberals promised during the 2015 election campaign not to buy the stealth jet. A final decision will now have to wait until after this fall's election. The competition comes at a time of renewed geopolitical rivalry between the West and Russia and China, and the chief of the Swedish Air Force says his fighters have been busier than ever. Maj.-Gen. Mats Helgesson said Sweden, which has a long history of being a neutral and non-aligned country, has over the past few years found its airspace violated more frequently by both Russian and NATO warplanes. That has required a stepped-up state of readiness for the country's Gripen fighter jet squadrons. "When we look around our borders, especially over the Baltic Sea, we can see increased activity, not only Russia, but also NATO," Helgesson told CBC News in an interview. "We see exercises. We see daily training and we also see intelligence gathering in a way that we haven't seen for many years." The Swedish air force is about the same size as the Royal Canadian Air Force. It has long flown the homegrown Gripen, which has gone through various iterations and models since it was first introduced in the mid-1990s. Saab AB, headquartered in Stockholm, intends to offer the latest variant — the E version — as a replacement for Canada's current fleet of CF-18s. The aircraft's design improvements, said Helgesson, are a direct result of what the military and the country's engineers can see being developed in Russia. "It's no secret that we need to be able to meet, not only Russia, but also other high-performing aircraft in the future," he said, pointing to Russia's Su-30 fighter jet, the more modern Su-35 (known by the NATO designation "The Flanker") and the stealth Su-57. There has been a rigorous political and academic debate about whether Canada should choose a legacy design from the 1990s, such as the Gripen, or the recently introduced Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter. The notion that stealth fighters are needed for conflicts with countries like Russia — countries that have advanced air-defence systems — was partly dismissed by the Swedish Defence Research Agency in a recent report. Russia's anti-access/areas-denial weapons (known as A2/AD) are not all they're cracked up to be, said the report released last month, which looked at the use of such systems in the Syria conflict. "Much has, in recent years, been made of Russia's new capabilities and the impact they might have on the ability of NATO member states to reinforce or defend the vulnerable Baltic states in case of crisis or war," said the report. "On closer inspection, however, Russia's capabilities are not quite as daunting, especially if potential countermeasures are factored in." The Gripen is intended for operations in rugged environments, such as Sweden's Arctic region, Helgesson said. "We are operating from dispersed bases," he said. "We use highways and small airfields spread all over Sweden in remote places, far away. And the logistics footprint is very small." The Arctic is, naturally, an important area of operation for the Swedish air force, and having far-flung bases has required the force to become creative about warehousing fuel, ammunition and other supplies. Canada's CF-18s occasionally operate from forward bases in the North, but those deployments are infrequent compared with the routine activity of the Swedes, experts have noted in the past. Like Canada, Sweden has just started reinvesting in defence, Helgesson said. The competition among manufacturers for Canada's fighter jet business is expected to be intense. Lockheed Martin will again pitch its F-35 stealth fighter. Boeing is in line to offer the Super Hornet — a larger, more advanced version of the F-18. Airbus Military plans to offer its Eurofighter Typhoon. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fighter-jet-saab-airbus-boeing-lockheed-martin-1.5096811?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

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  7 juin 2021 | Local, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité

  Le regroupement d’assurance collective d'Aéro Montréal : un franc succès ! ✈️

  Visualiser en ligne Le regroupement d'assurance collective d'Aéro Montréal : un franc succès ! Chers membres, Nous sommes conscients que le contexte actuel est très difficile et ce particulièrement pour notre industrie. C'est pourquoi nous prenons ce moment pour vous rappeler que vous avez accès à un regroupement d'assurance collective en tant que membres Aéro Montréal. Le regroupement d'assurance collective lancé par Aéro Montréal avec la collaboration d'AGA assurances collectives connait un franc succès. En misant sur la force du nombre, notre objectif est de vous faire bénéficier d'économies d'échelle : Une réduction des frais d'administration, qui assure une diminution du coût pour vous et vos employés La possibilité d'offrir de meilleures garanties Un accès gratuit à des services cliniques virtuels durant 12 mois avec la plateforme EQCare Les avantages sont nombreux : accès à des protections et services additionnels, réduction des primes et garantie de taux prolongée, etc. Au total le regroupement représente : 17 entreprises représentant environ 1500 assurés Des économies entre 10% et 25% Une garantie de taux allant jusqu'à 3 ans Une diminution des réclamations de médicaments Vous pouvez vous aussi faire profiter votre entreprise et vos employés des services de notre fournisseur, vous n'avez qu'à laisser vos informations en cliquant sur le bouton suivant et notre représentant d'AGA vous contactera sous peu. EN SAVOIR PLUS Si vous avez des questions, n'hésitez pas à contacter Béatrice Perier Agostini, Directrice, Relève et main-d'œuvre, Aéro Montréal. Nos partenaires : 380, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest Bureau 3120 Montréal, QC, H2Y 3X7 Téléphone : (514) 987-9330 ENVOYER À UN AMI SITE WEB