A Calgary high-tech company which won a $4 billion contract to provide the British Army with digital radios says the city will benefit from hundreds of new jobs and new technology the deal provides.
CDC Systems U.K. Limited, a subsidiary of Computing Devices Canada, was selected Thursday by the British Ministry of Defence as the prime contractor for its BOWMAN program. Computing Devices is a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S.-based General Dynamics Corp. The contract is the largest defence communications program in the U.K. in over 50 years.
“The impact on our Calgary facility represents $250 million in systems engineering work that will translate into more than 200 highly skilled engineering jobs over the next three years,” said Computing Devices’ CEO David Scott.
The northeast Calgary office is also expected to provide logistics support and training development for the program.
Scott said his company will draw on the systems integration experience they gained through the $1.6 billion Iris communications systems contract with the Canadian Department of National Defence.
BOWMAN will include a land-based command and control system, and will provide the infrastructure to support all digitization applications over the next 30 years. A total of 50,000 radios, 25,000 terminals and more than 8,000 local area systems will be involved, with 60,000 service personnel to be trained by the fall of 2007.
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