\n Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state for defence procurement, speaks at the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence in Ottawa, on Thursday, March 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby\n <\/p>\n
OTTAWA — Canada and Australia have agreed on terms to allow Ottawa to buy components of the Arctic over-the-horizon radar system from BAE Systems Australia. <\/p>\n
Stephen Fuhr, Canada’s secretary of state for defence procurement, was in Canberra on Sunday to make the announcement with Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles.\n <\/p>\n
Canada has committed to spend more than $6 billion developing the new radar system in the Far North, which is set to begin operation in December 2029.\n <\/p>\n
The radar system will give Canada the ability to detect threats in the air and on the ocean, and provide early-warning tracking throughout the North.\n <\/p>\n
BAE Systems is one of the companies that built an over-the-horizon radar system in Australia. Fuhr’s office said BAE Systems will work with Canadian companies to develop the Canadian system.\n <\/p>\n
Work on the new capability is set to begin on July 1, Fuhr’s office said, calling the agreement the beginning of the delivery phase for the radar project.\n <\/p>\n
The Canadian government is committed to spending $2.5 billion on the capability through this deal with Australia.\n <\/p>\n
The radar system will be located in Southern Ontario, at two transmission sites and two receiving sites. <\/p>\n
The Department of National Defence bought land near Barrie and Kawartha Lakes for the initial sites, which sparked controversy and petitions from landowners in the area.\n <\/p>\n
In May, Defence Minister David McGuinty’s office wrote in a response to questions from a member of Parliament that the location requirements for the project were inflexible and that the sites were chosen after assessing hundreds of options.\n <\/p>\n
Over-the-horizon radar is expected to be fully operational in 2043.\n <\/p>\n
It is considered a key component of the Norad modernization program, announced in 2022, which is expected to cost $38.6 billion over 20 years.\n <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state for defence procurement, speaks at the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,145,143,144,146,142],"class_list":["post-98369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-conservative","tag-federal-government","tag-liberal","tag-ndp","tag-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}