Cassidian has been awarded a contract by Defence Research Development Canada to develop new technologies to help Canadian Navy ships to detect and counter laser-based threats in littoral waters.

The Laser Optical Countermeasures and Surveillance Against Threat Environment Scenarios (LOCATES) programme aims to develop a detection and tracking capability along with a laser countermeasure system.

Under the programme, a prototype system will be developed and field-tested by 2013.

Cassidian sales head Simon Jacques said: “The Canadian Navy’s mission is continuously evolving, and accordingly requires cutting-edge technologies to detect and protect naval platforms from asymmetric threats.

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“Technologies developed in partnership with the DRDC will not only satisfy the Canadian Navy’s littoral requirements, but also those of allied Navies throughout the world.”