advanced naval vehicle

Today's customers both in Canada and around the world, where we expert our products, are demanding high quality, technologically sophisticated vehicles which perform to the highest standards and do so in the most environmentally friendly manner.

On the other hand, it's perhaps so modest that it does raise some sovereignty protection implications, which the committee might like to address. In terms of possible measures we could take, I'll run through these very fast: additional land, sea, and air deployments from southern Canada; improved multi-agency data sharing and analysis; the creation of a modest, and I stress modest, northern training centre; the retention and upgrading of the Arcturus, Arctic sovereignty aircraft, or what was nominally supposed to be an Arctic sovereignty aircraft but is now scheduled to be disposed of; acquire a supplement to the Twin Otter aircraft currently stationed in Yellowknife; acquire and we're looking at ...[+++]naval options an ice-capable seabed operations vessel; explore a full range of space-based sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, and subsurface surveillance systems, northern terrain vehicles; explore the utility of high-frequency surface wave radar in the north I believe Dr. Leggatt spoke to you about that and acknowledged that it had some potential utility, but there were limitations; and, in the longer term, continue to explore the potential for installing air-independent propulsion power plants on the four recently acquired submarines.

One offer seems clearly loss making, probably due to the technical sophistication of the vessels in question and the lack of experience of the shipyard in this field.