Three Calgary-based companies are part of a larger team that has been selected as one of two qualified bidders for a Canadian aerospace military contract worth more than $1 billion.
Canadian UAVs — a Calgary-based unmanned aerial vehicle service company — has been selected along with ATCO and Lockheed Martin CDL Systems to be part of Team Artemis, a Canadian group bidding for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft System project. The project is meant to supply the Canadian military with unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly called drones) for both domestic surveillance purposes as well as deployed missions.
Though the request for proposals is not expected to be released until later this year, the value of the contract is expected to be massive, with an estimated program price tag of between $1 billion and $5 billion over 25 years. Team Artemis — which is being led by Ontario-based defence and security company L3Harris Technologies — is one of only two groups to be selected as a qualified bidder, with the other being a group headed by U.S.-based military provider General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.
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