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Saab dangles sovereign data centre in Montreal to undercut F-35 fighter contract (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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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).

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 weeks ago

The Saab deal is the way better deal for Canada. Even trump is buying his ballroom steel from Europe.

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds like a good idea in of itself anyways. Fuck the F35

[-] Nils@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

Killed by the ironically named Progressive Conservatives, who basically are a party of US interests in Canada.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Dief the Chief did that. :/

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

With the benifit of hindsight, scrapping the project was a good idea. Not finding new work for the engineering and science team was not.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

The F35 is already getting shot down it is a busted plane. Radar stealth is no longer the way to hide.

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

SSC would still find a way to make everything in it dependent on AWS

[-] StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

To stray from the comments so far may I say that I object to one more project being handed to Quebec while they continue to talk separation. For the last few decades they've been getting all kinds of perks to help convince them to stay. That has to come to an abrupt end.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

You can stop worrying about Quebec separating, aside from a few hotheads, nobody wants this anymore. Not mentioning that we have a common enemy: the Epstein class.

If you need to worry about a province separating, look at Alberta.