{"id":753036,"date":"2026-06-22T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753036\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:59:17","slug":"canada-australia-formalize-deal-for-arctic-over-the-horizon-radar-system-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753036\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Australia formalize deal for Arctic over-the-horizon radar system \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2013 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\u2019s secretary of state for defence procurement, was in Canberra on Sunday to make the announcement with Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles.<\/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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

BAE Systems is one of the companies that built an over-the-horizon radar system in Australia. Fuhr\u2019s office said BAE Systems will work with Canadian companies to develop the Canadian system.<\/p>\n

Work on the new capability is set to begin on July 1, Fuhr\u2019s office said, calling the agreement the beginning of the delivery phase for the radar project.<\/p>\n

The Canadian government is committed to spending $2.5 billion on the capability through this deal with Australia.<\/p>\n

The radar system will be located in Southern Ontario, at two transmission sites and two receiving sites.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

In May, Defence Minister David McGuinty\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Over-the-horizon radar is expected to be fully operational in 2043.<\/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.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 Canada and Australia have agreed on terms to allow Ottawa to buy components of the Arctic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-753036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}