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Defence Research and Development Canada

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Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC; Recherche et développement pour la défense Canada, RDDC) in French), is an agency of the Department of National Defence (DND), whose purpose is to provide the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), other government departments, and public safety and national security communities with knowledge and technology. DRDC has approximately 1,400 employees across eight research centres within Canada. [1]

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Alouette 1

Alouette 1 is a deactivated Canadian satellite that studied the ionosphere.

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Alouette 2

Alouette 2 was a Canadian research satellite launched at 04:48 UTC on November 29, 1965 by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California.

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Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War.

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Beatrice Worsley

Beatrice "Trixie" Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was the first female computer scientist in Canada.

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Biological and Chemical Defence Review Committee

The Biological and Chemical Defence Review Committee, or BCDRC (French: Comité d’examen du programme de défense biologique et chimique, or CEPDBC) is a civilian body having oversight of the Canadian military's activities in the area of defence against biological and chemical warfare.

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Bitching Betty

Bitching Betty is a slang term used by some pilots and aircrew (mainly North American), when referring to the voices used by some aircraft warning systems.

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British Army Training Unit Suffield

The British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) is a British Army unit located at the vast training area of Canadian Forces Base Suffield near Suffield, Alberta, Canada.

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CADPAT

Canadian Disruptive Pattern - Terrain Woodland (CADPAT TW) French: dessin de camouflage canadien, DcamC) on the Canadian Army website is the computer-generated digital camouflage pattern first issued in 2002, and currently used by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). CADPAT TW is designed to reduce the likelihood of detection by night vision devices.

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Canada and weapons of mass destruction

Canada has not officially maintained and possessed weapons of mass destruction since 1984 and, as of 1998, has signed treaties repudiating possession of them.

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Canadian armed forces divers

Canadian Forces diving is performed by units of the maritime, land, and air environmental commands (ECs), the Experimental Diving and Undersea Group (EDU Grp), and Special Operations Forces (SOF).

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Canadian Forces College

The Canadian Forces College (CFC) is a military school for senior and general officers of the Canadian Forces.

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Canadian government scientific research organizations

Expenditures by federal and provincial organizations on scientific research and development accounted for about 10% of all such spending in Canada in 2006.

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Canadian Space Agency

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) was established by the Canadian Space Agency Act which received Royal Assent on May 10, 1990.

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CFAV Quest

CFAV Quest was an oceanographic research/acoustic vessel used by the Royal Canadian Navy and Defence Research and Development Canada.

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CFB Suffield

Canadian Forces Base Suffield (also CFB Suffield) is the largest next to CFB Gagetown Canadian Forces base and the largest military training base in the Commonwealth.

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Churchill Rocket Research Range

The Churchill Rocket Research Range is a former rocket launch site located outside Churchill, Manitoba.

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Cypress County

Cypress County is a municipal district in southeastern Alberta, Canada.

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DATAR

DATAR, short for Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving, was a pioneering computerized battlefield information system.

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David Landsborough Thomson

David Landsborough Thomson F.R.S.C., (1901 - 1964) was a Canadian biochemist, best known for the co-discovery of Adrenocorticotropic hormone (adreno-cortical thyroid hormone or ACTH) and as the vice-principal of McGill University.

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Defence Research Establishment Suffield

The military research facility located north of Suffield, Alberta, operated under the name of the Defence Research Establishment Suffield from 1967 to its renaming to DRDC Suffield in 2000.

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Department of National Defence (Canada)

The Department of National Defence (Ministère de la Défense nationale), commonly abbreviated as DND, is a Canadian government department responsible for defending Canada's interests and values at home and abroad.

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DRB

DRB may refer to.

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DRDC Suffield

DRDC Suffield is a major Canadian military research facility located north of Suffield, Alberta and is one of seven centres making up Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

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DRDC Toronto

DRDC Toronto is a major military research station located at the former site of CFB Downsview in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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DRDC Valcartier

DRDC Valcartier is a major Canadian military research station at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Quebec, one of nine centres making up Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

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DRE

DRE may refer to.

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DRTE Computer

The DRTE Computer was a transistorized computer built at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defence Research Board.

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Edward Llewellyn-Thomas

Edward Llewellyn-Thomas (15 December 1917 – 5 July 1984) was an English scientist, university professor and, writing as Edward Llewellyn, a science fiction author.

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Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick

Prof Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick FRSE OBE (1903-1981) was a British-born pioneer of electromagnetism in relation to its effects upon atomic particles.

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Ferranti-Packard

Ferranti-Packard Ltd. was the Canadian division of Ferranti's global manufacturing empire, formed by the 1958 merger of Ferranti Electric and Packard Electric.

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Gatineau Satellite Station

The Gatineau Satellite Station is a Canadian satellite station located in Cantley near Gatineau, in the province of Québec.

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Gerald Bull

Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian --> engineer who developed long-range artillery.

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H2S (radar)

H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system.

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Harbourview, Nova Scotia

Harbourview is a predominantly residential neighbourhood in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

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Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (23 August 1885 – 9 October 1959) was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs.

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History of the Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces.

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ICEE

ICEE may refer to.

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Invention in Canada

This article outlines the history of Canadian technological invention.

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John Herbert Chapman

John Herbert Chapman (August 28, 1921 – September 28, 1979) from London, Ontario, son of Lt.

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John Riley (Australian footballer)

John Riley (born 23 April 1958) is an Australian scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and North Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

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Lincos (artificial language)

Lincos (an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica) is a constructed language first described in 1960 by Dr.

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List of acronyms: D

(Main list of acronyms).

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List of people from Wolverhampton

This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with, the city of Wolverhampton in England.

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List of space telescopes

This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave and radio.

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List of University of Toronto people

The following is a list of notable persons affiliated with the University of Toronto, including alumni, chancellors, presidents, and current and former faculty members.

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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Canadian procurement

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Canadian procurement is a defence procurement project of the Canadian government to purchase Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), a process started in 1997.

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Marcel Chaput

Marcel Chaput (October 14, 1918 - January 19, 1991" ", in Bilan du Siècle, Université de Sherbrooke, retrieved June 5, 2008) was a scientist and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada.

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Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite

The Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite (M3MSat) is a tele-detection satellite developed by the Canadian Space Agency and launched in 2016.

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McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet

The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) is a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) (formerly Canadian Forces Air Command) fighter aircraft, based on the American McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fighter.

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Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada located along the South Saskatchewan River.

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Meteor burst communications

Meteor burst communications (MBC), also referred to as meteor scatter communications, is a radio propagation mode that exploits the ionized trails of meteors during atmospheric entry to establish brief communications paths between radio stations up to apart.

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Mid-Canada Line

The Mid-Canada Line (MCL), also known as the McGill Fence, was a line of radar stations running east-west across the middle of Canada, used to provide early warning of a Soviet bomber attack on North America.

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Minister of National Defence (Canada)

The Minister of National Defence (Ministre de la Défense nationale) is a Minister of the Crown and is the politician within the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the management and direction of all matters relating to the national defence of Canada.

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Moira Dunbar

Isobel Moira Dunbar (3 February 1918 – 22 November 1999) was a Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic ice researcher.

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Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle

The Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle (MMEV) was a dual-purpose short range surface-to-air and anti-tank platform intended for use by the Canadian Forces.

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National Research Council (Canada)

The National Research Council (NRC, Conseil national de recherches Canada) is the primary national research and technology organization (RTO) of the Government of Canada, in science and technology research and development.

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Natural scientific research in Canada

This article outlines the history of natural scientific research in Canada, including physics, astronomy, space science, geology, oceanography, chemistry, biology, and medical research.

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Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite

The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian microsatellite using a 15-cm aperture f/5.88 Maksutov telescope (similar to that on the MOST spacecraft), with 3-axis stabilisation giving a pointing stability of ~2 arcseconds in a ~100 second exposure.

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Omond Solandt

Omond McKillop Solandt, (September 25, 1909 – May 12, 1993) was an important Canadian scientist who was the first Chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board.

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Operation Hurricane

Operation Hurricane was the test of the first UK atomic device, on 3 October 1952.

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Operation Prairie Flat

Operation Prairie Flat was a test involving the detonation of a spherical surface charge of TNT to evaluate airblast, ground shock and thermal effects of nuclear weapons.

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Operation Snowball (test)

Operation Snowball was a conventional explosive test to obtain information on nuclear weapon detonations run by the Defence Research Board with participation from the United Kingdom and United States.

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Palliser Region

The Palliser Region is an area in the southeast corner of the province of Alberta, Canada that has been delineated and is serviced by the Palliser Economic Partnership.

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Paul A. Verdier

Paul Andre Verdier was a licensed psychologist in California.

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Prince Albert Radar Laboratory

The Prince Albert Radar Laboratory (PARL) was a radar research facility operated by the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defence Research Board.

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Project Magnet

Project Magnet was an unidentified flying object (UFO) study programme established by Transport Canada on December 2, 1950, under the direction of Wilbert B. Smith, senior radio engineer for the Transport Canada's Broadcast and Measurements Section.

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Project Second Storey

Project Second Storey, also known as Project Second Story, Project Flying Saucers and also Project Theta, was a committee set up on April 22, 1952 in Canada, to deal with material concerning Flying Saucers.

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Quaternion

In mathematics, the quaternions are a number system that extends the complex numbers.

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Ralston, Alberta

The Crown Village of Ralston is located to the east of Highway 884 on CFB Suffield within Cypress County in southern Alberta, Canada, approximately north of the Hamlet of Suffield and the Trans-Canada Highway.

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Ray Farquharson

Ray Fletcher Farquharson MBE (4 August 1897 – 1 June 1965) was a Canadian doctor, university professor, and medical researcher.

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Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium

The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) is a network of eleven regional clinical centers and a data coordinating center.

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Robert Uffen

Robert James Uffen, (September 21, 1923 – July 18, 2009) was a Canadian research geophysicist, professor, and university administrator.

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Rog-O-Matic

Rog-O-Matic is a bot developed in 1981 to play and win the computer game Rogue, by four graduate students in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh: Andrew Appel, Leonard Hamey, Guy Jacobson and Michael Loren Mauldin.

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Route Reference Computer

Ferranti Canada's Route Reference Computer was the first computerized mail sorter system, delivered to the Canadian Post Office in January 1957.

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Royal Military College of Canada

The Royal Military College of Canada (Collège militaire royal du Canada), commonly abbreviated as RMCC or RMC, is the military college of the Canadian Armed Forces, and is a degree-granting university training military officers.

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Rubicon Foundation

Rubicon Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization devoted to contributing to the interdependent dynamic between research, exploration, science and education.

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Shirleys Bay

Shirleys Bay is a bay of the Ottawa River, about sixteen kilometers from downtown Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.

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Software Communications Architecture Reference Implementation

The Software Communications Architecture Reference Implementation (SCARI) is an implementation of the US Military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Software Communications Architecture (SCA) Core Framework.

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Special operating agency

A special operating agency is a Canadian government designation given to government organizations that have increased management flexibility in order to improve performance.

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Structure of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989

The following article depicts the complete structure of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989.

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Structure of the Canadian federal government

The following list outlines the structure of the federal government of Canada.

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Suffield Experimental Station

The military research facility located north of Suffield, Alberta, operated under the name of the Suffield Experimental Station from 1950 to its renaming to the Defence Research Establishment Suffield in 1967.

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Tanquary Fiord

Tanquary Fiord or Greely Fiord is a fjord on the north coast of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago's Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.

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Thomas Henry Manning

Thomas (Tom) Henry Manning, OC (11 December 1911 – 8 November 1998) was a British-Canadian Arctic explorer, biologist, geographer, zoologist, and author.

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Thomas Jennewein

Thomas Jennewein is an Austrian physicist who conducts research in quantum communication and quantum key distribution.

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Timeline of Earth science satellites

The Timeline of Earth science satellites shows, in chronological order, those successful satellites with a program of Earth science.

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Timeline of first artificial satellites by country

As of April 2018, over eighty countries have operated artificial satellites.

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Ufology

Ufology is the study of reports, visual records, physical evidence, and other phenomena related to unidentified flying objects (UFO).

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Unidentified flying object

An unidentified flying object or "UFO" is an object observed in the sky that is not readily identified.

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UTEC

UTEC was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s.

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2010 in Canada

Events from the year 2010 in Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Research_and_Development_Canada

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