The other two bidders were the Alion Science and Technology-led team with a proposal based on the De Zeven Provinciën Air Defence and Command frigate which is in service with the Dutch Navy, and Spain’s Navantia offering its F-105 frigate design in partnership with Saab and CEA Tech...
Analysing the CSC frigate procurement project as an example of a Type 4 (although Canadian governments often treated it much like a Type 3) procurement process helps to understand why this happened. Such processes require not only that the goals of the political and administrative sides be closely...
A stone frigate, to put it simply, is a naval vessel established on land. The British first employed this informal term: to bypass legal obligations that prevented them from ruling “over land,” they decided to commission the island Diamond Rock as a ship during one of their many wars wit...