General Dynamics Mission Systems – Canada – Small and Medium Enterprise/Business Initiative 2017

 The Calgary GDMS-C facility is focused on tactical communications and mobile networks, additionally we are a Prime Systems Integrator (PSI), developer of military networking products, and we execute several large scale support contracts for the Canadian Armed Forces and British Army. 

 As part of our Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program, we are currently focusing on our future initiatives with the creation of our Future Tactical Network (FTN).  With our IRAD project in mind, and as part of our GDMS-C Small and Medium Enterprise/Business (SME/B) engagement strategy, it our intention to run a small competition for local SME/B technologies to be integrated into our IRAD efforts. 

The aim is to spark engagement and bring SME/B talent to the forefront with the help of a prime OEM (GDMS-C).  Additionally, the SME/B will be potentially exposed to new customers, and we will look to engage their technology in our current and future efforts. 

 Through this competition one or more local SME/B’s will be selected based on simple RFP to provide existing products ready for integration.  The selected SME/B will be placed under sub-contract with some limited funding, and proceed with working to integrate their respective products with our team. 

The current schedule for this initiative is as follows:

a.        No later than 22 September 2017 – register for the Industry Briefing Event.

b.       26 September 2017 – Industry Briefing Event and release of the RFP

c.       6 October 2017 – RFP proposal deadline.

d.       16 October 2017 – selected SME/B notified

e.       23 October – 30 November 2017:  Integration with GDMS-C IRAD project.

f.        Week of 4 December 2017:  GDMS-C IRAD demonstration.

For more information contact Sebastien Leclerc, Sebastien.Leclerc@gd-ms.ca   Registration needs to be received no later than 22 September 2017. 

http://www.gd-ms.ca/

Drone Technology Demonstration Workshop in Svalbard, Sweden, October 24-25.

We are now looking for companies and organizations that would like to participate and/or demonstrate their products or services for the scientists and research community. This might also lead to future business cases as the scientists will use drone and sensor technologies within their scope of work.

We are currently preparing the time slots for the workshop if any Canadian companies are interested in participating to contact Annelie Sule as soon as possible, so a time slot can be secured.

Contact

Annelie Sule // Space Innovation Manager,Umbilical Design 

ESA - European Space Agency - Technology Transfer Broker, Sweden 

Grev Turegatan 14 I 114 46 Stockholm // Sweden

Mobile: +46 (0) 736 14 06 16         www.umbilicaldesign.se 

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

They are currently leading a project called “Drones in Arctic Environments”, which is a work package within the larger EUproject INTERACT. They are working for the scientists in 79 remote terrestrial field bases in northern Europe. The main objective for the INTERACT project is to build capacity for identifying, understanding, predicting and responding to diverse environmental changes throughout the wide environmental and land-use envelopes of the Arctic.

The scope of the work package is to: 

·         Transfer UAV technology from industry to scientists;

·         Identify applications through cooperation between arctic researchers and technology industry (drones and sensors);

·         Evaluate UAV requirements for scientists at Arctic research facilities;

·         Identify and propose suitable sensors and drones for the Arctic research environment;

·         Increased knowledge on drone technology and sensors used;

·         Identify sensors for UAV’s specifically for Arctic research currently underrepresented;

·         General rules and legislation with an application on the Arctic environment and their respectively countries; and,

TACWEST 

Sept 19-21, 2017

Calgary, AB

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NAIS CSS 2017

Oct 17-19, 2017

Belguim

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Unmanned Systems Canada

Nov 1-3, 2017

Toronto, ON

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2017 Canadian Aerospace Summit
Nov 7-8, 2017
Ottawa, ON
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