Preserving capacity, General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, Keys to Canadian SAR
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BRIEF in GeneRAl DynAmiCS lAnD SySTemS-CAnADA has won a contract re- portedly worth at least $10 billion to supply light armoured ve- hicles to Saudi Arabia. The award is the second major contract for the London-based company in the past year; last spring it con- firmed the sale of 24 LAVs to the Colombian army for $65 million. The contract was facilitated by the Canadian Commercial Corpo- ration and helps break into a key priority market targeted in the government's Global Markets Action Plan. Canada previously sold LAVs to Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s and in 2009. Calgary-based novATel has been awarded a contract to test its GAJT-700ML antenna on Canadian Army armored vehicles. The GAJT-700ML is the world's first single-unit GPS anti-jam anten- na system for land vehicles. The award falls under the Build in Canada Innovation Program. The Directorate of Land Require- ments, with the assistance of the Quality Engineering Test Es- tablishment and the Land Force Trials and Evaluation Unit, will oversee all testing. Field testing is expected to take place in early March at 4th Canadian Division in Petawawa and will ana- lyze the performance of GAJT on the Artillery Observation Post Variants of the LAV III in operational conditions. mACDonAlD, DeTTwileR AnD ASSoCiATeS has been awarded mul- tiple strategic technology development contracts valued at approximately $3 million under the Canadian Space Agency's Space Technology Development Program, which is aimed at advancing key technologies to support future space explora- tion missions. The projects include ambitious approaches to robotic spacecraft servicing, robotic systems that can operate in more challenging space environments, and instruments for planetary exploration. Vancouver-based oSi mARiTime SySTemS has received a contract to provide its Tactical Dived Navigation System to THySSen- KRupp mARine SySTemS AB for the Royal Swedish Navy subma- rine upgrade program. The TDNS includes OSI's subsurface Warship Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems software, ECPINS, which is the fleet standard for many NATO and allied navies including Canada. OSI also signed a contract with the Royal Australian Navy to provide fleet-wide ISS for its ECPINS-W Sub software. Montreal's eSTeRline CmC eleCTRoniCS has received certifica- tion from Transport Canada on its Airbus A310 Flight Manage- ment System upgrade that will breathe new life into the RCAF fleet of CC-150 (A310) Polaris aircraft. Montreal-based CAe announced that the government will partic- ipate in its Project Innovate, a five-year R&D program to devel- op and expand current modelling and simulation technologies and develop new ones. The government is providing a repayable investment of $250 million under the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative (SADI). CAE also confirmed contracts valued at more than $110 million to provide a range of training systems and services to the U.S. Navy, Royal Danish Navy and Mexican Air Force. The deals include providing Beechcraft T-44C aircrew training for the USN, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter simulator for the Danish Navy, and a T-6C ground-based training system (GBTS) for the Mexican Air Force. The Canadian Armed Forces have accepted the first of three deployable fast-time analysis systems from GeneRAl DynAm- iCS CAnADA for the CP-140 Aurora Maritime Patrol Aircraft. The portable system can be deployed with the aircraft for missions away from main operating bases in Canada and allows ground crews immediate access to post-flight analysis of critical acous- tic data, confirming and classifying targets. In Canada the sys- tem is referred to as the Deployable Modular VME Acoustic Signal Processor (MVASP) Post Processing and Archiving System or D- MPPAS; it makes up part of the ground equipment for the Aurora Incremental Modernization Program. Internationally, the system will be sold under the name Acoustic Replay & Intelligence Ex- ploitation System, or ARIES. oSHKoSH DeFenSe CAnADA confirmed its bid for the Standard Mili- tary Pattern (SMP) component of the Medium Support Vehicle System (MSVS) project before the January deadline. The com- pany also highlighted its Canadian team for the logistics vehicle fleet replacement program: DEW Engineering and Development, General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada, and Link Suspen- sions of Canada–Raydan Division. Dew enGineeRinG AnD DevelopmenT has received a contract amendment to provide 99 additional mobile workspaces under the Medium Support Vehicle System project. The Ottawa-based company was awarded a $130 million contract in 2009 to pro- vide 895 baseline shelters. The amendment is valued at $25 million. DEW will also design and equip 846 of the shelters with power generators, tools, work benches, and electronic and office equipment, enabling them to also be used as command posts, meteorological and medical stations and workshops. The con- tracts will sustain jobs in Ottawa and Miramichi, New Brunswick. First deliveries of the kitted shelters are expected later this year. Abbotsford-based CASCADe AeRoSpACe has signed an agree- ment with loCKHeeD mARTin that will see the company become one of only two authorized C-130J Heavy Maintenance Centers (HMC) in the world. The new designation means Cascade is now dual-qualified as both a C-130 Hercules Ser vice Center and C- 130J HMC. I INSIDE INDUSTRY 10 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014 www.vanguardcanada.com