The Government of Canada has announced plans to acquire the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the country’s next-generation fighter aircraft. The F-35 will replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18 Hornets that entered service in the early 1980s.

Canada’s LAV III Upgrade project will modernize a portion of the existing LAV III fleet to ensure it remains a highly protected and operationally mobile combat vehicle and the backbone of domestic and expeditionary task forces. The project is now in the definition phase, which will determine the scope of the work required to upgrade the vehicle.

General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada, the original equipment manufacturer, has been awarded a $34 million contract for this definition phase.

DND’s Close Combat Vehicle Program has attracted the attention of a number of prominent military vehicle manufacturers.

In Part 1 of CDR's report on military vehicles we look at the contenders for the Close Combat Vehicle program. In the following edition we will address the players involved in TAPV with Part 2 in this series. Subscribers to CDR’s Online news section can view the full two part series on Canada’s military vehicle programs immediately. 

CAE's President and Chief Executive Officer, Marc Parent and New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, announced they will work together to bring new contracts and jobs to advanced learning and technology companies in New Brunswick. The agreement was signed on June 30, 2010 at the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Information Technology Building in Fredericton.

The Canadian Navy commemorated its centennial with an International Fleet Review by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on June 29th in the Halifax Harbour and Bedford Basin. 

Vector Aerospace Corporation has been awarded, through one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, a new customer contract for overhaul and repair services on the Rolls-Royce (RR) T56 engine and associated major assemblies in the Middle East-North African (MENA) region. 

L-3 MAS has delivered the last of 10 Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet aircraft for which it performed Centre Barrel Replacement (CBR) work under contract to the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO).

On June 29th, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada and Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces unveiled a new one-dollar circulation coin immortalizing the centennial of the Canadian Navy.

The Mint will produce seven million of these commemorative circulation coins, which begins circulation on June 29th.  Canadians are encouraged to look for this special coin in their change, or order it online by visiting www.mint.ca/navy.

Lockheed Martin is donating a CA$3.5 million package of training materials to the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies’ Aviation Maintenance and Engineering (AME) faculty. 

Lockheed Martin donated CA$100,000 in May to support the AME program and announced at that time the continued collaboration with faculty administration to develop and implement courseware and instructor's materials for training in more than three-dozen engineering disciplines including systems engineering, quality assurance, logistics and interface engineering management.

L-3 ES and Rod Hall Products have signed an agreement to work together and to assess military vehicle opportunities in the future by delivering suspension products using the unique capabilities of both companies.