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A market leader in environmentally-friendly mobility and threat-appropriate security technologies, Rheinmetall Canada employs 300 people in Canada.

An ­international leader in the development of equipment and systems for maritime forces worldwide, specializing in under sea surveillance.

Develops innovative, high quality underwater products and services that are dependable and cost effective, such as its diver-held imaging sonar and navigation system.

Establishment of its Space Forces and expansion of its constellation of ­military satellites will significantly increase Russia’s military potential in outer and near space.

Leaders think in terms of logistics, but the operational enablers often fall victim to pointy-end procurement programs.

Special image capture technologies designed for situations with extremely low ambient light levels.

CMS represents a broad spectrum of capabilities and products with optimized synergies for cost-effective high-performance functionality.

Distributor of optics, electro-optics, surveillance systems, thermal and night vision equipment. Training and systems integration solutions.

High-performance radar intelligence networks engineered to identify and track uncooperative targets such as small vessels, low-flying aircraft, and birds, enhance safety and security.

NovAtel offers the broadest range of high precision, OEM GNSS positioning products in the industry. They are recognized for their performance, quality and innovation.

Does Canada need to incorporate submarine capability to its surveillance and sovereignty requirements?

The Project Manager (2000-2005) recalls the original SOR process.

Surface Based Sensors for Maritime Domain Awareness

Defence of the Global Commons has become an emerging policy issue for NATO, DoD and DND strategists.

FrontLine articles provide a wide-ranging selection of topics related to space, satellites and research.

Canada’s Minister of National Defence, Peter MacKay, briefs readers on the Canada First Defence Strategy.

Recruit, train, and equip – these three words sum up the responsibilities of the Chief of the Air Staff – and always with an eye to the future. Long term plans focus on investing in capability, something that has been gradually diminished in recent decades. 

The maritime environment is well known for its inherent dangers, quite apart from those always present in naval operations. Small wonder, then, that “those in peril on the sea” are right out there in the use and development of unmanned vehicles to help accomplish the mission.

''The little ship that could'' is enjoying a renaissance in the global naval community. Will corvettes brave the North Atlantic once again?

Last Fall, the Canadian Chief of the Air Staff, in an outline of the future vision for Air Force transformation, announced that the need for high-quality real-time intelligence will lead the Air Force into an unprecedented focus on multi-sensor-equipped, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Reduced post Cold War threat, budget reductions, and regional conflicts are driving factors behind the restructuring of the Bundeswehr (Military) from a large Mechanized force, structured to repel armoured attacks by Warsaw Pact forces, to lighter, rapidly deployable units suited for UN missions and Peace Support Ops.

Intelligence-gathering and operating agencies do not like to share.

The Government of Canada announces a National Security Policy (NSP) for Canada entitled Securing an Open Society: Canada’s National Security Policy.

The Canadian Forces responds to the changing security environment.

For a cost of C$80M, Arcturus SAR would provide both an improved east coast SAR capability and a footprint Canadian Military presence, demonstrating Arctic Sovereignty through increased NORPATs.

General Atomics Aero­nautical Systems, Inc., was awarded a Canadian Forces contract to deploy its ALTAIR unmanned aircraft, a Predator B variant, in support of the Atlantic Littoral Intelligence, Surveillance, Recon­naissance Experiment (ALIX).

Thanks to the timely work of a new association called UVS Canada and their first major conference, "Momentum 2003," held recently in Ottawa, there is now a focus and a platform for the kind of collaboration necessary to start exploring this potential.