Raytheon Canada Limited (RCL) [RTN] said Thursday it has been awarded a five-year contract by Public Works and Government Services Canada for operations and maintenance of the North Warning System (NWS).
The contract includes two options totaling an additional five years. Canada did not provide the contract value for public release.
The North Warning System is a joint Canadian and United States radar system covering the north from Labrador to the Yukon. The NWS detects airborne threats across North America’s polar region, providing a command and control capability to the Canadian Air Defense Sector of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
RCL is contracted to provide operations and maintenance for the NWS and assume full care, custody and control of the NWS and its components. This includes 47 radar sites, five logistics support sites, a monitoring and control center and a radar depot.
RCL will be maintaining the sites to ensure continuous radar surveillance over northern Canada in support of the defense of North American and Canadian sovereignty.
Raytheon Canada Limited partnered with
Canadian Base Operations Inc., in bidding for the contract.
“Providing the best solution at the best value, as well as our Inuit Benefit offering were key discriminators in our win,” said Pierre LeBlanc, NWS program manager Raytheon Canada Limited. “RCL brings training as a core competency to develop a high technology work force in the north.”
RCL is committed to achieve the contractual Inuit Benefits, but has set goals beyond mandatory requirements, the company said in a statement..