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Canadians are quite rightly preoccupied with coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. It affects our safety and security. Nevertheless, there is another crisis…

The European project among the 27 nation European Union is designed to speed up movement of military personnel and equipment of member states across  their various  borders. This would reduce bureaucratic and other hindrances of movements by air, sea, road or rail. EU defence ministers announced today they will allow Canada, the U.S., and Norway…

America’s largest military shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls Industries, is known for for aircraft carriers and big deck amphibious ships, but its corporate strategy is sighted in on much smaller platforms.

The bids are in for Europe’s largest fighter procurement in a decade, and all five contenders remain in the race. The four governments representing the five Western fighter manufacturers vying for Finland’s €9.4 billion ($11.3 billion) HX fighter requirement delivered their final offers to Helsinki on April 29.  Now procurement officials will scrutinize the military performance, cost, security of supply and proposed industrial cooperation being offered by the manufacturers to replace the country’s Boeing F/A-18 Hornet fleet.  

The federal government is moving ahead with building two heavy icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard operations in the High Arctic, federal officials announced Thursday. The 150-metre-long vessels will be able to operate in heavy ice conditions for up to nine months at a time as well carrying out important science research in the High…

The Army has a history of not planning for or thinking much about sustainment during the development phase of programs, instead attempting to solve how to manage systems after they are fielded.

Incentives can and must be refocused from within Congress to unleash the best of our free enterprise system. New players must be enticed by lowering barriers to entry into the defense-industrial base and provided real opportunities to compete fairly with the major defense contractors.

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The contract extends Raytheon's work on the Next Generation Operational Control System to Block 3F.