As part of its pitch to lure Canada to buy Gripen-E fighter jets, Saab has offered to establish a secure, sovereign data centre in Montreal to house critical, top-secret mission data and intelligence, CBC News has learned.
The company is framing it as a “unique advantage” in the battle to convince the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney to limit the purchase of U.S.-manufactured F-35s, which have all of their data stored at a Lockheed Martin centre in Fort Worth, Texas.
The purpose-built Saab data centre “will host all work on the fighter mission system,” Saab spokesperson Sierra Fullerton confirmed in a recent statement to CBC News.
The centre would be staffed by Canadians who possess “Canada/U.S. security clearance,” presumably to handle data related to the defence of North America through the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).
It seems that even countries with their own domestic aeroplane manufacturing are betting on Saab., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Operators
On that note, didn’t Canada used to have local industry a long time ago?
Killed by the ironically named Progressive Conservatives, who basically are a party of US interests in Canada.
Dief the Chief did that. :/
Avro Arrow is a legendary bit of canadiana. It was scrapped and replaced with some US missile defense agreement.
Now it’s ancient history but there’s a good story there and even a movie or 2 about it
With the benifit of hindsight, scrapping the project was a good idea. Not finding new work for the engineering and science team was not.