The Joint Strike Fighter / F-35 Program: A Canadian Technology Policy Perspective
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Date
2014-03
Authors
Lam, Danny
Cozzarin, Brian Paul
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Air University Press
Abstract
The Canadian F-35 procurement represents the largest peacetime acquisition of new aircraft for Canadian forces since the
Korean War. Securing industrial benefits from military procurement is essential for advanced industrialized nations, and it has long
been Canadian industrial policy to do so. For the CF-18 program, “offset” contracts were negotiated, valued at 2.7 billion Canadian dollars (CAD) or 110 percent of the worth of the initial contract.
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military aircraft, electronic warfare, technological change, costs, acquistions & mergers, economic development, defense industry