Saab dangles sovereign data centre in Montreal to undercut F-35 fighter contract

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The company is framing it as a "unique advantage" in the battle to convince the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney to limit the purchase of U.S.-manufactured F-35s, which have all of their data stored at a Lockheed Martin centre in Fort Worth, Texas.

"Gripen data will also be housed here, securely within Canadian borders," Fullerton said. "With the fighter mission system, communications and technical data all hosted in Canada, Gripen exceeds all industrial, security and controlled goods requirements.

"But if we wanna maintain our sovereignty in the face of the United States moving in directions that we're very uncomfortable with — something that may outlive the Trump administration — then we need to think about having our own autonomy at the energy level, the infrastructure level, the software level and the data level," he said.

"If we depend on the United States, its data trail, its software, its broader security stack, then in a sense we become dependent upon the United States more broadly, not just for security, but for everything else that data facilitates, and that data feeds into," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saab-lockheed-martin-fighters-data-defence-9.7157673

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