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fEATURES
12 JOINTEX 15
Training tactical to strategic decision-making
by Chris Thatcher
16 mission preparedness
Is investment going in the right direction?
by LGen (Ret'd) Stu Beare
18 Defence procurement
The value proposition of a new strategy
an interview with Philip Jennings
22 Agile defence
Five areas for sustainable cost reduction
by Jeff rey Rodney
24 NavSea forum
Raising the cost-capability stakes
by Vanguard Staff
26 Smart gun
a test bed for the army's next-gen rifl e
by Vanguard Staff
28 Innovative tech
BCIP: Breaking in state-of-the-art technology
by Benoit Maraval and Chris Thatcher
32 Technology's dilemmas
are we wired to respond?
an interview with P.W. Singer
36 Cyber security
Collaboration to counter threat explosion
an interview with Symantec's Cheri McGuire
38 Back in the ASw game
The role of Canadian underwater warfare capability
by Dan Simard
40 wESTDEf
How the West defence was one
by Denean Tomlin
41 Air force gamifi cation
From experimentation to widespread adoption
by David O'Brien
DEPARTmENTS
6 SITREP: do we need cyber nORad?
8 INSIDE INDUSTRY:
a budget supportive of industry?
44 EDGE Of TECH: arctic autonomy
46 TECHNOLOGY wATCH:
From wearables to virtual reality
48 INTELLIGENCE:
Who will interrogate returned foreign fi ghters?
50 THE LAST wORD: The risk of a hollow force
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SMART GUN
TECHNOLOGY'S DILEMMAS
BACK IN THE ASW GAME
COVER STORY
Canadian, Colombian and German jumpers during
Exercise Maple Flag 2013, part of JOInTEX 13 that will
now adopt a naTO scenario for coalition training.
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