Information Solutions for ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY

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Information Solutions forARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY

• A Truly Canadian Solution

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Topics

• Aim and Themes
• Team Introduction
• Conference Relevance
• Background
• Discussion
• Conclusion

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Aim

• With political will, ecological, environmental
  and economic interest to develop a strong
  Canadian presence in the Arctic by means of an
  integrated technology solution.

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Themes

• Given the current uncertainty regarding Arctic
  sovereignty, there is a clear need to
• Protect Canadian interests and security
• Protect Canadian sovereignty
• Enable effective monitoring and control in order
  to respond to events through Situational
  Awareness
• Canadian Industry is Ready Aye Ready to
  contribute in the Canadian North

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Situational Awareness

• Information
• Collection
• Fusion
• Partition
• Decimation
• Role-based presentation

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Industry Team

• CAE Professional Services / CAE Incorporated
• Dr. LeRoy Pearce
• Dr. James McFarlane
• International Submarine Engineering Ltd.
• Marport
• OSI Geospatial Incorporated

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The System

• People
• Operating Procedures
• Training
• Hardware
• Software
• Ours is SOA

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Information Integration

• Enables
• Raw data collection
• Modelling the what ifs
• Decision analysis and resolution (DAR)
• Resource staging
• Intergovernmental information sharing

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Technology MUST BE

• Multipurpose
• Primarily a maritime solution
• Cost effective
• Reliable
• Able to withstand very hostile environment

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Integration Challenges

• Enable owners of information to control their
  information
• Security
• Legal/privacy challenges
• Political
• Avoid ITAR

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Arctic Solution

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• System of systems
• Allows
• any authorized organization to connect
• touchless technology
• use of legacy systems
• Flexible security models
• Mix and match technologies into single integrated
  information system
• Geographic or technology disparities are
  irrelevant
• Uses commercial infrastructure

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Primary Technological Challenges

• Energy
• Hardware
• Communications
• Ruggedizing for the Arctic

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Critical Canadian Arctic Infrastructure

• Health Care
• Hospitals, laboratories and pharmaceuticals,
  blood supply
• Food Supply Chain
• Safety, distribution, agriculture food industry
• Water Supply
• Drinking water and waste management
• Transportation
• Air, rail, marine and surface
• Safety
• NBC, hazardous materials, SAR, security,
  emergency service dams
• Government
• Services, facilities, info nets, assets
  national sites
• Manufacturing
• Defence industrial base, chemical industry
• Finance
• Banking, securities and investment
• Communications and Information Technology
• Telecommunications, broadcasting, networks
• Energy Utilities

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Service Components

• Data collection/smoothing
• Modelling
• What ifs
• Contingency plans
• Simulation
• Synthetic environment to develop models and test
  responses
• Presentation (C4ISR)
• Information storage and retrieval
• Data fusion/mining
• Comparative Analysis

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Conclusions

• If it will work in the Arctic, it will work
  anywhere
• Arctic sovereignty is a maritime solution
• Very applicable to any maritime security problem
• Information Technology is not a problem
• Technology exists today and is commercially
  available
• Integration know-how exists
• Organizational will is the problem
• Do not necessarily play well with others