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General Dynamics wins $341 million Canadian Army contract
Relevance Score: 4.294 2009-03-20 00:10:20
General Dynamics Canada Corp. won a $341 million contract from the Canadian Army for communications services to the army’s Land Command Support System. The five-year contract includes options to extend the support for up to five more years, bringing the total potential contract value to $682 million. In the mid-1990s, with the support of General Dynamics Canada, the Canadian Army transitioned to a fully digital communications system. Since 2003, General Dynamics Canada has provided in-service support for this system, which is currently being used by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Under the contract, General Dynamics Canada and its partners will support the operation and maintenance of the currently deployed system at home and abroad. The companies will also provide engineering services in support of periodic enhancements of the systems capabilities by integrating new software and hardware elements. Work related to contract will be conducted at General Dynamics Canada’s facility in Calgary, which provides command, control, communications and integrated sensor systems. General Dynamics Corp., of Falls Church, Va. ranks No. 6 on Washington Technology's 2008 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors.
US Army deal for Gen. Dynamics Canada
Relevance Score: 3.645 2009-11-28 15:20:09
The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, in support of the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC), has awarded a USD$2.2 billion contract to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada for 724 Light Armored Vehicles (LAV) for a Foreign Military Sale (FMS). Vehicle deliveries will begin in April 2011. General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company's parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics ( GD). The contract was signed through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Agency of the Canadian Government. Dr. Sridhar Sridharan, senior vice-president of General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, said, "We are pleased to be working once again with TACOM and USASAC in support of their Foreign Military Sales program. This contract now allows us to immediately start work on variant design and production readiness. We look forward to reaching the manufacturing portion of this contract which will help us bring stability to our production workforce." Vehicles provided under this contract will be the LAV II version -- a 300 horsepower 8x8 vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of up to 32,000 lbs (14,500 kg). The vehicles will be produced in 10 different variants. General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, located in London, Ontario, Canada, is a business unit of General Dynamics Land Systems of Sterling Heights, Michigan. For over 30 years, more than 1900 highly skilled technical employees have designed, manufactured, delivered and supported to global customers a unique family of light armoured vehicles (LAV). More information on the company is available at www.gdlscanada.com General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs approximately 92,300 people worldwide. The company is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and information systems and technologies. More information about General Dynamics is available online at www.generaldynamics.com.
Boeing Announces First ScanEagle Reinvestments
Relevance Score: 3.471 2009-06-15 16:49:38
Boeing, with its wholly owned subsidiary Insitu, has announced the first U.S. $25 million in contracts to Canadian companies as part of a government order for small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) services. The Canadian government in April awarded a $30 million contract to Insitu, manufacturer of the ScanEagle SUAV, for services in support of the Canadian Forces' intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations in Afghanistan. Boeing agreed to match the contract value with dollar-for-dollar investments back into the Canadian economy through the Industrial and Regional Benefits (IRB) policy maintained by Industry Canada. If the Canadian government exercises additional contract options, the contract could provide a total of nearly $61 million in opportunities for Canadian industry and universities. "The ScanEagle has proven itself as a long-endurance unmanned aircraft system, and Boeing continues to prove itself as a long-endurance partner to Canada," said Insitu SUAV Program Manager Greg Davis. "The reinvestments we make as a part of the ScanEagle program will result in long-term business relationships for Canadian firms," said Gwen Kopsie, director of International Industrial Participation and Alliances for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. Boeing is on track to meet the Canadian government's IRB policy. To date, Boeing and Canadian businesses have signed several contracts tied to the ScanEagle program. Partners include: + ING Engineering Inc. (Ontario, Northern Ontario, Quebec and Alberta): Unmanned vehicle systems field services + MKS (Ontario): MKS Integrity software and consulting services for SUAV program life-cycle management + NovAtel (Alberta): ScanEagle Global Positioning System. These supplier agreements complement Boeing's already significant involvement in Canada. Boeing is a major contributor to the Canadian economy, generating approximately $1 billion in business annually. Canada is home to one of the company's largest international supplier bases, with industry and university partnerships in every region of the country that provide a diverse mix of high-value goods and services to Boeing and its customers. Boeing also employs more than 1,600 highly skilled workers in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Manitoba who support the company's major business units + Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
GD Land Systems Canada Awards $150m Contract for Reactive Armour
Relevance Score: 2.756 2009-06-02 10:23:50
General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products a $150m contract to qualify and produce reactive armour for Stryker vehicles. GD's reactive armour system comprises tiles that fix to the exterior of the Stryker family of vehicles, enabling better protection against hits from anti-armour munitions. GD Armament and Technical Products vice president and general manager of weapon systems Russ Klein said that the lightweight armour technology provides an increased level of equipment and troop protection against shape-charged threats, including rocket-propelled grenades. In support of this new contract, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission awarded General Dynamics a grant to offset costs incurred in purchasing production-related equipment. Work will be performed at the General Dynamics facility in Camden, Arkansas, and deliveries are scheduled to begin in March 2010.
Pratt & Whitney Canada Cooperates With FlightSafety International to Expand Global Training Network Capability
Relevance Score: 2.699 2010-04-12 15:50:30
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) informed a long-term collaboration agreement with FlightSafety International (FlightSafety) to expand the company's global training network capability and enhance the customer training experience for all P&WC customers around the world. P&WC customers and employees alike will have access to FlightSafety's world-class learning facilities and a strong technology-based training curriculum for the full range of P&WC engine products. Pratt & Whitney Canada is a United Technologies Corp. company. "Pratt & Whitney Canada has a 40-year legacy of excellence in customer training. The global expansion of our training capabilities network is another way in which we are working to anticipate the needs of our global customer base and provide the best value in the industry," informed Raffaele Virgili, Vice President, Customer Service, Pratt & Whitney Canada. "Through this agreement, we will be physically closer to customers and able to offer a stronger technology-based training curriculum, with greater frequency." In an effort to enhance the Customer Service experience for P&WC consumers, the company launched its Customer First Centre in 2007 and has been taking frontline services to the next level ever since. P&WC's comprehensive service portfolio includes: Field Support Representatives on all continents; Mobile Repair Teams available around the clock; an extensive parts distribution network that grows every year; the largest pool of P&WC rental and exchange engines in the industry; an industry-leading Eagle Service Program (ESP(R) program); a customized Fleet Management Program (FMP(R) program); and the most comprehensive warranty coverage in the industry. FlightSafety is a leading professional aviation training company for commercial, government and military organizations. FlightSafety provides more than a million hours of training each year to pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from more than 150 countries. FlightSafety operates one of the world's largest fleet of advanced full flight simulators at Learning Centres and training locations in Canada, the United States, Europe, South Africa and Asia. FlightSafety's Learning Centre in Montreal, Canada will lead the effort to support Pratt & Whitney Canada customers and employees. Online and Interactive Training for All For the duration of the agreement, FlightSafety will manage daily operations as well as develop and produce courseware material and provide Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities. P&WC will oversee the global customer-training program. "We are pleased and proud to have been selected by Pratt & Whitney Canada," said Mike Lee, Director, Maintenance Training Business Development, FlightSafety International. "The addition of P&WC engine training services to our longstanding partnership with United Technologies as the authorized training organization for Sikorsky and training provider for UTC's corporate flight department, further demonstrates our common commitment to enhance aviation safety worldwide and to provide our mutual consumers with the highest quality training and outstanding service and support." P&WC consumers and employees will also gain access to a greater volume and variety of online learning tools as a result of this collaboration agreement. FlightSafety will use new and innovative technology (Learning Management System (LMS) and Learning Content Management System (LCMS)) to maintain and update P&WC's courseware in Canada, which includes online and interactive training and all materials for technical courses. FlightSafety's technical training programs offer in-depth classroom and hands-on instruction designed to develop, expand and refine proficiency. The company's industry leading maintenance training courseware and curriculum meets worldwide regulatory requirements and provides technicians with highly effective training that supports their efforts to maintain aircraft and their engines to the highest standards. Customer maintenance technicians will also benefit from FlightSafety's use of full-scale systems trainers, major component cutaways, working models, maintenance task simulators and a large variety of test equipment used to demonstrate procedures and reinforce the information learned in the classroom. Pratt & Whitney Canada, based in Longueuil, Quebec, is a world leader in the design, produce and service of aircraft engines powering business, general aviation and regional aircraft and helicopters. The company also manufactures auxiliary power units and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., United States, is a diversified company delivering high-technology products and services to the global aerospace and building industries.
Abbass lands $867,000 military deal
Relevance Score: 2.571 2010-01-30 21:29:32
Jay Abbass has scored a direct hit in selling technology to the federal government that will allow military planes to evade incoming missiles. The former provincial Liberal cabinet minister is president of Canada Direct Trading Ltd., an import and export company based in Halifax. The company has won a contract that’s worth $867,571 to supply an unspecified number of tiny explosive cartridges used to deploy decoys from military aircraft. The explosive charge — "not much more than you’d find in a kid’s cap" — pops the missile decoy out of a holder and allows it to fall away from the plane.
Metal Storm Informes About Canadian Weapon Deal
Relevance Score: 2.467 2010-02-02 19:44:57
Further details have emerged about Metal Storm’s order from Defence Research and Development (R&D) Canada for three MAUL 12 gauge multi-shot accessory under-barrel launchers together with ammunition. According to an announcement to ASX today, Defence R&D Canada is examining technologies which could be used in a future integrated small arms weapons system. Metal Storm technologies, the 3GL and MAUL, have been identified as potential lightweight solutions providing semi-automatic fire and escalation of force capabilities. The MAUL system - 12 gauge, 5 shot, semi automatic shotgun for both military and law enforcement users - has reportedly been purchased as representative of the two technologies and will undergo evaluation both from the perspective of user acceptance and EMC vulnerability and emissions. Metal Storm General Manager Peter Faulkner informs the business is “looking forward” to receiving the results of Defence R&D Canada’s evaluation. “We view this as the beginning of a long term relationship that could potentially lead to our participation in the development of Canada’s next generation small arms weapon system,” he informs. The three MAUL weapons will be provided in March 2010, subject to export regulations. Headquartered in Darra, Queensland, Metal Storm also operates out of the United States and services most of the world.
Pratt & Whitney Canada Celebrates 500th Engine Delivery to Blackhawk Modifications Inc.
Relevance Score: 2.436 2010-02-05 18:18:12
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) recently celebrated the delivery of its 500th PT6A turboprop engine to Blackhawk Modifications Inc. of Waco, Texas, a major player in the growing aircraft modifications market. P&WC is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company. P&WC held a special ceremony at its engine production facility in Longueuil to honour Blackhawk and its 250th engine conversion consumers, Dan Rogers, owner of Franklin, N.C.-based DuoTech Services, a company offering engineering laboratory, depot repair facility, and other technical services to military and civilian agencies. Blackhawk recently installed two new PT6A-135A engines on Rogers' Cheyenne II aircraft through the Blackhawk XP135A upgrade, offering better performance and efficiency and enhancing resale value. Blackhawk, founded in 1999, specializes in replacing engines on five aircraft models with factory-new PT6A engines, including Raytheon King Air 90, Cessna 425 Conquest and Cheyenne turboprop aircraft. "We are very impressed with Blackhawk's growth over the past 10 years and want to congratulate them on their success," informed Michael Perodeau, Vice President, Corporate Aviation & Military Programs, P&WC. "They have grown their conversion business by offering operators of flying aircraft an option to improve the aircraft performance through more powerful PT6A turboprop engines." Aircraft modifications are growing in popularity. Operators benefit from more power, faster climb and higher cruise speed, with minimal changes to the aircraft. Pratt & Whitney Canada, based in Longueuil, Quebec, is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines powering business, general aviation and regional aircraft and helicopters. The company also produces auxiliary power units and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., USA, is a diversified company delivering high technology products and services to the global aerospace and building industries.
Canada Diplomat Leaves Afghanistan Confident Of Success.
Relevance Score: 2.399 2009-07-15 02:41:06
Ron Hoffman considers the bombs, danger, political intrigue and stress of being the highest-ranking Canadian in the world's most volatile area hard to beat. For Hoffmann, who on Friday ends his history-packed two-year term as the Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, he admits it'll be hard to leave his diplomat's job in the high-profile war zone. ``On a personal level, there is no diplomatic experience that could be as rewarding as this one,'' Hoffmann informed recently at his smartly appointed official Kabul residence along embassy row, barricaded behind ultraheavy security. ``My career can only go downhill after this. ``To be given the privilege of being the senior Canadian in a country which is our top development priority, our top diplomatic priority, and our top military priority is an extraordinary experience.'' The 48-year-old diplomat, originally from Winnipeg, acknowledges that Afghanistan is still a powder keg in many ways. Forty three coalition troops have died in the first half of July alone - four Canadians, one Italian, 15 Brits, 23 Americans. ``There is no doubt that the security situation has become more difficult over the last month,'' Hoffmann said. ``But there are a number of factors involved. One, it's the traditional fighting season, with the opium harvest having ended. Two, the military operations in Pakistan have moved some insurgents into Afghanistan.'' An American troop surge is also upping the ante with fighting. Hoffmann said the Aug. 20 election, only the second in Afghanistan's history and the first fully organized by Afghans themselves, adds to the tension but represents a significant step. He also believes Canada has done a wonderful job helping Afghans move toward democracy, in particular with training police and soldiers, helping shape Afghan debate, and contributing almost $100 million to education alone. ``Canada has done really well in Afghanistan,'' Hoffmann said, noting how much Ottawa supports the efforts with resources, people and even attitude. ``This country has challenges and a long way to go to overcome its security issues and institution building. ``But I'm also confident as I leave that Afghanistan will succeed because we have seen solid progress.'' The Canadian Embassy is in the process of doubling, with more than 100 staff. The chic, modern residence will be replaced by an even newer one. The sprawling Canadian grounds will soon encompass several large buildings. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada's military mission in Afghanistan will end in 2011. By then, Canada will have contributed $1.9 billion in civilian spending, among the largest of any country. Hoffmann's next posting is in Bangkok, as the Canadian ambassador for Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. Seasoned diplomat William Crosbie will take over in Afghanistan. He has lived apart from his wife and two teenage children during his stint in Afghanistan. So the Asian posting comes with a bonus. ``I leave with very mixed feelings,'' he said. ``I would have loved to stay longer, and had I been single, I would have. ``But it's time to get our family back together.''
Verizon gets 10-year, $2.5 billion defense pact
Relevance Score: 2.360 2009-03-23 00:01:10
Verizon Communications' business segment has received a 10-year contract worth up to $2.5 billion to continue to provide network and data services at global U.S. Department of Defense locations. Under the Defense Information System Network Transmission Services — Pacific II contract, Verizon Business will remain the provider of telecommunications services at military installations and other government sites located in the Asia-Pacific region, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America and South America, the Middle East and the United States. If all options are exercised, the deal has a maximum value of $2.5 billion. Verizon Business said it will provide services ranging from individual circuits to managed transmission services over fiber or satellite, or both. The company also will provide managed data services including Internet protocol, Ethernet and Internet services.