Project : NORAD Command and Control
In 1973 , NORAD decided to upgrade its communications and control equipment — SAGE and its related systems — and to create Regional Operations Control Centres ( ROCCs ). After examining a number of approaches , NORAD decided that Canada and the United States would work jointly to develop and install equipment for all seven Control Centres , with the two Canadian centres co-located at North Bay in order to reduce costs .
In 1980 – 81 , contracts were let for SAGE ’ s modernization at North Bay . By 1982 , work on the ROCC was completed at a cost of $ 2.1 million , with the second phase of the project launching in 1983 – 84 for almost $ 1 million . from the late 1950s and early 1960s — including a 1958 position paper on the Canadian construction industry written by then-President R . G . Johnson — to Colonel Dave Battye , the ROCC project manager at DND . Battye found them to be a “ great help .”
One of the points that the documents stressed was a familiar stand for DCC : that the Canadian construction industry was in a position to take on large-scale projects and that , as Johnson had written , “ under the conditions which exist today the industry would strongly protest any steps which would mitigate against Canadian contractors obtaining work in Canada .”
DCC ’ s experience helped guide it not only for this project , but later for the North American Air Defence Modernization project as well . In late October 1984 , Joe Bland sent copies of DCC files and project summaries
BREAKING NEW GROUND DEFENCE CONSTRUCTION CANADA
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