Preserving capacity, General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, Keys to Canadian SAR
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"We think we have the right product with the right team at the right price that meets the warfighter requirements at the best value for the Canadian government," he said during an interview at CANSEC. "But this is part of the fairness – we don't know. Until we are notified otherwise, it is in the hands of the government." Though the Defence Procurement Strategy was released well after the MSVS bid solicitation, and is unlikely to directly impact the process, Urias said Oshkosh is already assessing opportunities for technology develop- ment and transfer with Canadian industry and academia to meet offset requirements around ITBs. "We understand the vision in Canada as far as developing and sustaining an indigenous capability from an industry stand- point and we want to be part of that solution." www.vanguardcanada.com JUNE/JULY 2014 9 I INSIDE INDUSTRY Made-in-Canada SAR solution There is a tragic irony to the ongoing search for the vital black box of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Many of the military aircraft flying grid patterns over the vast ocean to the southwest of Australia posses a Canadian technology that would allow their black box data to be quickly recoverable should they ever crash. Most aircraft in the Royal Canadian Air Force, as well as many in some 50 militaries worldwide, carry a Deployable Flight Data Recorder, a Canadian- pioneered device that is ejected from the tail of an aircraft upon impact with the ground or water. Once deployed, the device transmits a message, often within 10 to15 min- utes, to a GEOSAR or LEOSAR that currently make up the network of satellites that form part of the Montreal-based international Cospas-Sarsat Program. The message includes the country of origin, tail number and GPS location for the point of impact. That information is relayed from a ground station to the country of origin and the nearest mission control centre. "Now the two most important mission control centres are working to to- gether," explained Blake Van Den Heuvel, director of business development for DRS Technologies. "It takes the search out of search and rescue." Although similar devices are now manufactured by a handful of compa- nies, including L-3, Honeywell and GE Aviation, DRS was highlighting the tech- nology and its Canadian origin as part of its display CANSEC. "This isn't a replacement of a black box," said Van Den Heuvel, equating the use of deployable and fixed data recorders to the complimentary protection of a seat belt and air bag in a car. "This has the ability to transform what hap- pens when an airplane has a tragic event in the middle of the ocean." T O L E A R N M O R E V I S I T : S C OT T S A F E T Y.C O M Copyright © 2011 Scott Safety. All Rights Reserved. LET'S WORK. S co t t S a fe t y a re wo r l d l e a d e r s i n t h e d e s i g n a n d d eve l o p m e n t o f Re s p i ra to r y P ro te c t i o n Eq u i p m e n t ( R P E ) . We h ave a d e t a i l e d u n d e r st a n d i n g o f t h e p hys i o l o g i c a l a n d p syc h o l o g i c a l b u rd e n R P E c a n p l a ce o n u s e r s . Th a t i s w hy we te st i n t h e f i e l d . We a p p l y w h a t we l e a r n t h e re – a s we l l a s e m e rg i n g re s e a rc h a n d te c h n o l o g i e s to eve r y d e s i g n to e n s u re s u p e r i o r c a p a b i l i t y, f u n c t i o n a l i t y a n d co m fo r t . I r re s p e c t i ve o f w h e t h e r yo u r re q u i re m e n t i s fo r C B R N p ro te c t i o n , B re a t h i n g A p p a ra t u s fo r E O D, U SA R , D a m a g e Co n t ro l , L aw E n fo rce m e n t , F i re F i g h t i n g o r fo r s p e c i a l i st a p p l i c a t i o n s S co t t c a n m e e t yo u r re q u i re m e n t s - Co m fo r t a b l y OUR FOUNDATION IS OUR TECHNOLOGIES, OUR MISSION IS EXPANDING YOUR CAPABILITIES.