Recently the Aerospace Corporation Center for Space Policy and Strategy released a paper that discusses the long-standing Canada – U.S. military space relationship and how it is an ideal case study for other alliances.
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This interview by Eva-Jane Lark with Colonel André Dupuis, who has since retired from the Department of National Defence and runs the consultancy Space Strategies Consulting, was published in Space Quarterly Magazine in March 2012.
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The Department of Defence (DND) yesterday announced the $1.6 billion Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEeS) program that includes opportunities in the space domain.
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If it is said that innovation of defence excellence is the Canadian Department of National Defence’s research and development goal, then it could be noted that Canadian space industry “start-ups” may possibly provide an answer to the space capability requirements that have been listed in the Department’s recent defence policy document.
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I have been prompted to write this Paper with the publication in August of the excellent Space Advisory Board’s (SAB) report titled Consultations on Canada’s Future in Space: What We Heard. This Paper is also the result of analyzing national space policies for many years.
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This past Friday the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario) announced at the headquarters of COM DEV International that the government had selected 21 companies and 38 research and development projects to fund as part of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) Space Technology Development Program (STDP).
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This is part 2 of An Overview of Canadian Military Space in 2014. Part 1 is available here.
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Arguably 2014 was a watershed year in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) military space program. Up until this year the military space program was focused on delivering capability that could be used by the Navy, Army and Air Force as joint force enablers but rarely were those capabilities tightly integrated into operations, nor were they exploited to their maximum advantage. To do so requires a …
Read More »In a rare news release from the the Department of National Defence (DND) with respect to Canada’s military activities in space, the DND announced yesterday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Australia, the United States and United Kingdom to formalize the Combined Space Operations Initiative.
Read More »The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of National Defence yesterday outlined the governments inaugural annual Defence Acquisition Guide yesterday and it contains upwards of $5.9 billion military space related projects.
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