Combat Package Timeline
NATIONAL SHIPBUILDING STRATEGY
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THE DASHBOARD
OCT 19, 2011
Irving Shipbuilding Inc.
ocially named as the builder
for Canada's next generation
of Combatant ships.
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Canada signs long-term
agreement with Irving
Shipbuilding Inc.
JULY 10, 2012
Preliminary contract
signed for Arctic
Oshore Patrol Ships
project.
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Site Engineering
contract awarded.
MARCH 2013
Irving Shipbuilding Inc.
moves forward with
detailed AOPS design.
AUGUST 21, 2013
Irving Shipbuilding Inc.
announced $360 million
investment to prepare
facilities to build Canada's
future Combatant ships.
JANUARY 23, 2015
The $2.3B AOPS
build contract was
signed.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Construction begins
on the first Arctic and
Oshore Patrol Ship
(AOPS), the future
HMCS Harry DeWolf,
at Halifax Shipyard, the
most modern shipyard in
North America.
The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS), as it was previously named,
is a long-term program that was launched in June 2010 to renew the fleets of the Royal
Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). The strategy was divided into three
sections: the combat package, the non-combat package and the smaller vessel package.
In October 2011, the results for the two larger packages were made public – Irving Shipbuilding Inc.
was awarded the $25 billion combat work package, and Seaspan and Seaspan Marine Corp.
was awarded the $8 billion non-combat work package.
