The initial term of the contract is for five years through to April 2028 and includes five additional one-year options allowing Canada to extend it. The contract is valued at up to $136 million CAD.
As a contractual joint venture, the three companies will combine their respective expertise in the Canadian and international defence C4ISR domain to offer specialized software development and integration solutions to the Canadian Army.
“The opportunity to further enable the Army’s digital transformation in close collaboration with KWESST and Modis Canada as our partners is one Thales welcomes. Together, we can innovate and sustain C4ISR solutions that the Army can trust, both in its response to a changing world and in pursuit of Canada’s defence policy. It’s also an opportunity for us to further leverage Thales’ expertise in Land command & control as well as in collaborative combat systems through COBALT Mission Backbone: an interconnected system of systems designed to meet the Canadian Armed Forces’ sovereign mission needs from the core to the far edge – now and into the future,” said Ian Krepps, Vice-President, Business Development & Growth, Thales Canada.
The work will include tasks related to software development and engineering of Land C4ISR systems and professional services to support the Director Land Command Systems Program Management (DLCSPM) – not only with the sustainment of the LC4ISR specialized software, but also in developing future evolutions of applications that will contribute to Canadian defence policy.
