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I inside industry inBrief Kongsberg Protech Systems Canada has been awarded a $100 million contract by Rheinmetall Canada for work on the Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle project. The deal is a sub-contract within a larger $205 million agreement between Textron Systems Canada, the prime on the TAPV, and Rheinmetall announced in October 2012. Kongsberg will provide its new advanced Dual Remote Weapon System, which features two mounted weapons that can be operated by both the vehicle commander and gunner from within the vehicle. Montreal-based CAE announced contracts valued at over C$100 million, including a contract from Elbit Systems to provide M-346 training devices for the Israeli Air Force, multiple contracts from the UK Ministry of Defence to support CAE's Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility, and a contract for maintenance and support services for the NATO E-3A training devices. The company also said its Mission Solutions group had achieved Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 5 certification, the highest quality standard possible for software engineering. Northrop Grumman has awarded General Dynamics Canada a Canada's Integrated Soldier System Project might have hit a bump, but the German Bundeswehr continues down the networked, high tech road with its Gladius soldier system. In January, the German military awarded the Rheinmetall Group an €84 million contract to provide 60 additional systems on top of a previous order of 30. Gladius, which will see its first combat in Afghanistan, is built around an "electronic backbone" that contains the radio, core computer, batteries and GPS module. $32 million contract as part of the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance program to provide software to manage radio and satellite communications between Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles and the main Communications Ground Control System in Sigonella, Italy. GDC will also provide ruggedized computer workstations and the Voice over Internet Protocol intercom systems to enable communication between base operators and mobile command centers. Th ex Th im an • • General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada has been awarded a Lockheed Martin Canada has entered into an agreement to purchase certain assets of the engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business of Montreal-based Aveos Fleet Performance. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Lockheed Martin CEO and president Marillyn Hewson said the acquisition was consistent with the company's expansion strategy and it will begin engine MRO operations for commercial and military customers later this year. Montreal-based Esterline CMC Electronics' (CMC) has been awarded a contract for the avionics upgrade of the Royal Canadian Air Force fleet of five Airbus CC-150 (A310) Polaris aircraft. CMC will upgrade the legacy avionics equipment with its latest generation CMA-9000 Flight Management Systems, which will improve the fleet's ability to operate in polar regions, including allowing tanker refueling operations. USD$24 million contract to produce 13 Light Armored Vehicles (LAV-A2) for the U.S. Marine Corps. The LAV-A2 is an eight-wheeled vehicle that can operate on land and water. It is equipped with enhanced armor protection and an automatic fire-suppression system for crew protection, as well as a robust suspension for mobility. The Marine Corps has ordered 253 LAV-A2 vehicles since 2007. The vehicles will be produced at GDLSC's already busy facility in London. Deliveries are scheduled for 2014 Akoostix of Dartmouth, NS was awarded an $862,500 contract to provide Defence Research and Development Canada Atlantic with a suite of acoustic analysis tools, software development, data analysis and sea-trial support. The company's TruView Rapid Processing and Analysis system was developed from research conducted with DRDC. Airbus Military has flight-tested winglets on its C295 medium MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of Richmond, B.C., has signed a $706 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency to build, launch and provide initial operations for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. The project is expected to require seven years. The company also signed a US$9.5 million contract with an undisclosed customer to provide operational support for geospatial data fusion and exploitation projects and a US$4.3 million contract with OGSystems to develop a prototype surveillance solution for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – a small, rapidly deployable mobile ground station to receive and process imagery from multiple commercial satellites. 10 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013 www.vanguardcanada.com transport and surveillance aircraft, the aircraft it is offering for Canada's Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue program. The first flight test took place at its Seville facility in Spain on 21 December. Data from that and future tests will be analysed to determine if the winglets should be incorporated into the C295 design. Airbus Military says the potential modification is "one of a series of product developments" being considered for the C295. Ultra Electronics Marine Systems of Dartmouth, NS recently received a three-year, $6.9 million contract to provide maintenance work on the towed-array sonars for Canada's four Victoriaclass submarines. • • • R