Plans to deliver a host of new technologies for the Canadian Army as part of a C$250 million modernisation project has been delayed due to issues with obsolete equipment.
Delivery of the equipment – which includes radios, a smartphone-like computer, GPS and communications headset – was expected to begin later this year, but that has now been pushed back to spring 2017.
Last July, it was announced that Rheinmetall Canada had been awarded a C$8.5 million contract to test and qualify new technologies for what is known as the Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP).
The contract stipulated that the
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