ADVANCING CANADA’S MISSION THROUGH INDUSTRY LEADING SUSTAINMENT SOLUTIONS

 

Mission Focused.  Dedicated to Excellence.

 

We provide Canada’s most reliable supply chain management, engineering solutions, and maintenance and repair services, guaranteeing our customer’s mission succeeds every time.

MISSION

Provide reliable engineering solutions, maintenance and repair, integrated logistics support and supply chain management services, which ensure the customer mission is accomplished.

Information on doing business with us and our commitment to Industrial and Technological Benefits.

  • For over 35 years, Arcfield Canada has been a leading provider of high value logistics and in-service support for avionics, C5ISR, electronic warfare, and advanced systems

  • We are Canada’s only prime contractor for fighter platform avionics sustainment, providing comprehensive in-service support for the full suite of fighter aircraft avionics and associated test equipment

  • We are a dedicated partner to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), supporting Canada’s fighter fleet.

  • We provide complete lifecycle sustainment through Supply Chain Management, Engineering Solutions, and Maintenance and Repair Services

  • We provide configuration management for all supported systems and are innovators in proactive obsolescence management

  • We are platform-agnostic and our full capabilities can be readily duplicated for any defence program or platform

  • For you that means the highest level of project performance and fleet availability every day

CAPABILITIES

 

Supply Chain Management

We know that strategic forward supply chain and logistics support is critical to advancing your mission. Arcfield Canada is a leader in Supply Chain Management solutions. As the leading contractor providing Supply Chain Management to the RCAF’s CF-18 aircraft, Arcfield ensures equipment availability leading to operational readiness and mission success.

Read about our partnership with Palitronica to meet industry requirements in Cyber Materiel Assurance here.

Engineering Solutions

When the CAF was faced with major obsolescence issues with their Automated Test Equipment (ATE), Arcfield Canada innovated a solution. Our Engineering Solutions team successfully undertook the challenge to fully integrate drop-in hardware replacements and station software upgrades to meet the CAF’s needs.

Maintenance & Repair

In-service support is what we do at Arcfield Canada. In fact, it’s all we do. We are a platform-agnostic provider of sustainment solutions and performance-based logistics. We provide full life-cycle management of all avionics for the Canadian fighter fleet and are the OEM for supporting ATE. We favour no particular systems, only a core focus on optimizing project performance and ensuring quality service delivery.

Counter-UAS Technology

Arcfield Canada has joined forces with leaders in Counter-UAS (C-UAS) technology to provide advanced solution-based expertise and innovations to effectively counter the risks associated with uncrewed aircraft systems. Offering a full range of defence and security solutions to meet today’s drone challenges, we are committed to delivering robust solutions that ensure the protection and integrity of vital air space and infrastructure assets.

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FAST FACTS

Supply Chain

  • Primary provider of Supply Chain
    Management for the CF-18 fleet

  • Largest allocation of government-owned materiel in Canada

  • 33,000 unique line items managed

  • Operation of over 6,689 M² of warehousing
    at locations across Canada

  • First company in Canada to achieve
    DND Technical Airworthiness Acceptable

    Materiel Support Organization (AMSO) accreditation

Engineering

  • Development and upgrades to over 600 Test Program Sets

  • Fully self-sufficient in ATE software
    development

  • Offload and re-host of test capability between ATE platforms

  • 250,000+ artifacts in Configuration
    Management

  • High value proactive Obsolescence
    Management

  • Reliability, availability, maintainability: Logistics Support Analysis

Maintenance & Repair

  • More than 70,000 repairs completed to-date

  • In-house 2nd and 3rd line MRO

  • Calibration and component level repair of test equipment from multiple OEMs

  • 99.9% Serviceability on delivery

  • 99.5% Response times met

  • 99.7% Materiel demand satisfaction rate

CAREERS

COME WORK WITH US!

 
 

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LEADERSHIP

 

Jacques Comtois
VP Operations and Strategic Growth

As Vice President of Canadian Operations, Jacques is responsible for leading the company’s business operations, growth, and performance. He leads the strategic planning to advance future business opportunities and scale the Canadian operations.

Jacques started his career in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), where he served as a Commanding Officer, 3 Air Maintenance Squadron (3 AMS) in Bagotville, Québec, and managed preventive and corrective maintenance operations in support of the CF-18 fighter aircraft. After serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, Jacques joined Rolls-Royce and Spar Aerospace. He also served as vice president and general manager at the JFK Service Delivery Centre for Bombardier Transportation in New York City, L3 MAS in Montreal, and L3Harris WESCAM. He has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and an executive MBA from Queen’s University.

Greg Nelson
Senior Operations Management

Annu Vaidya
Director, Business Development

Don Yeo
Senior Programs Management

Jeff Rushton
Engineering and Logistics

Gregory Garner
Quality Management

Peter Pavey
Contracts Administration

Jackie Abbott
Finance and Accounting

CONTACT

Canadian Headquarters
6732 8th Street N.E., Calgary, AB T2E 8M4
(403) 295-4770

Business Development
360 Albert Street, Suite 620
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1R 7X7

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