- From the Info-machine “Industry Minister James Moore Will Officially Open ING Robotic Aviation’s New Ottawa Facility 1100 Monday 17 November 2014 — The Hon James Moore, the Minister of Industry, will officially open ING Robotic Aviation’s new Ottawa facility 1100 Monday 17 November 2014. ING Robotic Aviation is Canada’s leader in delivering airborne sensing solutions ….”
- F-35 Tug o’ War “Canadian Government Officials: No F-35 Purchase/Swap” – “Officials deny reports of secret F-35 purchase”
- “Canada’s LAV III vehicle upgrade to include enhanced surveillance suite — General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada has been contracted by the Canadian government to include enhanced surveillance suites in upgrade work for LAV III infantry fighting vehicles ….”
- “GenDyn Canada contracted to connect military to WGS system — General Dynamics Canada is building a network of antenna anchor stations for the Canadian military’s access to the Wideband Global Satellite system. The WGS system is a constellation of communications satellites that provides extra bandwidth for deployed military forces. Canada has signed on for the U.S. and Australian program ….”
- Wanted: someone to do some environmental clean-up at Goose Bay “RFAP for South Escarpment Dumps and Stillwaters Remediation, Goose Bay, NL”
- Wanted: someone to run a four-day “Tactical Driver’s Course” – more details in the Statement of Work here
- Wanted: scientific help to develop really, really tiny things to help detect nasty chemicals “Defence Research and Development Canada – Suffield Research Centre, Ralston, AB has a requirement for the development and testing of nanotechnology based biochemical identification device. A great deal of progress has been realised in the field of nanotechnology-based sensors for sensing and identifying toxic compounds. DRDC has an ongoing research effort to exploit nanotechnologies for sensing applications to monitor the environment for the presence of toxic materials that may present a health and safety risk to the military. The aim of the project is to build and test the performance of biochemical sensing and identification device that exploits nano-wire technology ….”
- Wanted: “Temporary Ground Surface Panels …. The Department of National Defence (DND), 440 Transport Squadron, operates Twin Otter Aircraft in remote locations throughout the Canadian Arctic. When landing and taxiing on unprepared surfaces, there are occasions when the ground is not stable enough to support the aircraft which could disable the aircraft from launching and continuing its mission. 440 Squadron currently has no means of recovering a disable aircraft from remote unstable ground situations. Plywood has proven heavy and ineffective. DND has a requirement for six (6) 2m x 4m (+/- 20%) portable composite temporary surface panels effective for self-help extracting of Twin Otter aircraft from remote unstable ground conditions ….”
- Wanted: someone to put up “upwards of 50“ folks around Ottawa, with room for bagpipe practice, from March to May and August to November for the next few years
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