DEFSEC 2010 Show Guide details

Vanguard Features

		Sea change As the Canadian Navy celebrates its centennial and prepares to publish its strategic vision for the next 40 years, Horizon 2050, Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, Chief of the Maritime Staff, spoke with Vanguard about the Navy’s challenges and opportunities.
		The importance of capability With the Canada First Defence Strategy a little over a year old and DND facing budget changes, Bill Pentney, Associate Deputy Minister, spoke with Vanguard about the CFDS and the ongoing Strategic Review, and how they might affect the Canadian Forces as they prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan.
		Developing the future, capturing the present With the introduction of new capabilities in cyber, space and defence intelligence as well as a growing list of lessons learned from operations, Major-General Stuart Beare, Chief of Force Development, spoke with Vanguard about institutionalizing the best of what the Forces have developed.

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In the News

Lockheed Martin delivers new wings for CP-140 Aug 3 - Lockheed Martin delivered the first of 10 new mid-life upgrade outer wings for a CP-140 Aurora, to be installed by IMP Aerospace in Nova Scotia.

AgustaWestland congratulates Canadian Forces 442 Squadron July 30 - Members of the Canadian Forces 442 Squadron, based at CFB Comox in British Columbia, received congratulations from AgustaWestland for winning the 2010 Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award for "Outstanding Courage or Devotion in the Air."

Canada commits to buy F-35 Lighting II July 16 - The Canadian Forces will receive the first of an eventual 65 Lockheed-Martin Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) in 2016, said Defence Minister Peter MacKay at a mid-July announcement in Ottawa, but his colleague in defence procurement, Rona Ambrose, the minister for Public Works and Government Services, could not be more specific about the value of the In-Service Support (ISS) contract.

NGRAIN virtual repair solution to be for Joint Strike Fighter July 16 - Maintainers of the new F-35 will be using NGRAIN's 3D technology as the backbone for the Low Observable Health Assessment System (LOHAS) which is designed to support the maintenance operations for the aircraft.

L-3 to deliver STINGER to the CF L-3 Communication Systems-West confirmed during CANSEC that it will deliver its Common Data Link Ground System, otherwise known as the STINGER, to the Canadian Forces.

MDA extends surveillance service to Canadian Forces MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates signed a six-moth extension with PWGSC for the Heron, a long endurance unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle in Afghanistan.

More industry news

Appointments

Senstar appoints new head of global product sales August 10 - Gord Loney, a former Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, was appointed vice-president of product sales for Senstar Corporation, a new position created to drive the company's product sales globally. Loney joined Senstar in 1995 as the product sales manager for Canada, Africa and the Middle East.

Army names new commander June 21 - Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin assumed command of Canadas Army from Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie in an official ceremony at the Canadian War Museum.

Decary new CSE comissioner June 21 - Honourable Robert Décary, most recently arbitrator to the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne, Switzerland, was appointed the new Commissioner of the Communications Security Establishment.

Hamel to command JTFN June 18 - Brigadier-General Guy Hamel, formerly the commander of Canadian Forces Base Borden and Formation Commander for Canadian Forces Support Training Group, assumed command of Joint Task Force North, replacing Brigadier-General David Millar at a ceremony in Yellowknife.

Tremblay to command Land Force Quebec June 17 - Brigadier-General Alain Tremblay was appointed Commander of Land Force Quebec Area and will take command on July 30, 2010. He replaces BGen Daniel Ménard, who was to have taken command in July. Menard has been appointed to head the Military Personnel Management Capability Transformation Project, reporting to the Chief of Military Personnel.

Fard joins CAE June 11  Keyvan Fard was named Executive Vice President, Business Development and OEM Alliances of Montreal-based CAE. In an effort to expand in the helicopter market, Fard will also serve as president of CAE Helicopter Solutions.

Reports

Canadian policy toward the DRC Speculation about an enhanced Canadian military mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo has quieted in recent months, but the possibility remains. In a policy brief for the Centre for International Policy Studies, Eugenia Zorbas, a post-doctoral fellow and a former official of the UN Mission in the DRC, argues that current Canadian policy towards DRC is ineffective and inefficient, and could be greatly improved without necessarily committing additional financial or military resources. She suggests Canada should refrain from funding any Security Sector Reform (SSR) activity until an assessment of whether conditions exist for 'holistic SSR' is conducted.

Coherent Reserve Strategy for the Canadian Forces The absence of a coherent, forward-focused Reserves strategy is "a total denial of the lessons of history...that have seen Canada woefully unprepared in some circumstances and tolerating larger than necessary casualties and deaths in theatre as a result," Senator Hugh Segal writes in a paper on a CF strategy for the reserves. Noting that as much as 20 percent of the Forces in the field have been Reservists from all three services, he outlines eight recommendations, including guaranteed funding, explicit specialized tasks beyond general military training and preparedness, broader recruitment programs and equal medical services and pay arrangements.

Sustaining Canadian capacity What happens when the war in Afghanistan ends (at least for Canada), our soldiers return home, the headlines disappear from the front pages and "peacetime life" resumes? How ripe a target is defence spending as the government eyes new deficit cutting measures? In a paper for CFDAI and the Journal for Military and Strategic Studies, recently retired diplomat Colin Robertson examines how we avoid making the military our peace dividend. "The Past as Prologue: Sustaining Canadian Capacity for Defence, Diplomacy and Development" is available at www.cdfai.org.

Summitry in the Americas Inter-American summitry has served valuable purposes, adding legitimacy to democratic norms and values, advancing specific initiatives, and providing a forum for face-to-face engagement of leaders. But as Richard Feinberg explains in Summitry in the Americas: The end of mass multilateralism?, a policy paper published by the Canadian Foundation for the Americas, the process suffers from evident shortcomings, the most serious being "the wide gap between words and deeds that has generated a summitry credibility gap."

Debating NATO With a new Strategic Concept for NATO expected later this year, several Canadian think tanks have released reports on the way ahead for the alliance. The most comprehensive is a combined effort by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, which brought together politicians, former Chiefs of the Defence Staff, an ambassador to NATO, NATO field commanders, strategists and staff officers, and academic experts, to develop a "Canadian perspective [on] the most salient challenges and opportunities facing the Alliance." Their recommendations have been provided the Group of Experts, led by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The report is available at www.natoconcept.ca

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