Rheinmetall To Support Canada’s C4ISR Program

Rheinmetall has won a CAD 57 million major support contract from government of Canada pertaining to Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR).

The contract will take place over the next five years and will be expensed using a task mechanism over this period. The contract is part of the sustainment of the Land Command, Control, Communication, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) program and Rheinmetall Canada is to provide ISTAR in-service support services (ISS), the company said in a statement Tuesday.

The goal of the ISTAR ISS contract is to provide the Canadian Armed Forces with an ISTAR Command and Control Information System (C2IS) capability.