26-58170 Mobile Command Centre (MCC) for the Centre for Autonomous Flight Systems (CAFS)

Organization

National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

Closes

December 8, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

Category

goods

Notice type

Request for Proposal

Delivery

Canada

Estimated value

Not stated

Reference

26-58170

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26-58170 Mobile Command Centre (MCC) for the Centre for Autonomous Flight Systems (CAFS), Drone and Flight Autonomy Laboratory The National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Drone and Flight Autonomy Laboratory (DFAL) requires one (1) purpose-built Mobile Command Centre (MCC) for its Centre for Autonomous Flight Systems (CAFS), located at the Ottawa Airport adjacent to the NRC Flight Research Laboratory. The MCC is a self-contained vehicle that serves as the ground control, telemetry, safety-monitoring and data-recording facility for flight trials. It must support two lines of work: the flight autonomy and human factors research conducted at CAFS, and the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) operations of DFAL, at field sites across Canada. BACKGROUND: The Centre for Autonomous Flight Systems (CAFS) expands upon the existing capabilities of the NRC Flight Research Laboratory (FRL). It provides an advanced research infrastructure specifically engineered for the development, integration and evaluation of autonomous and optionally piloted aircraft systems. The facility aligns with Canada’s broader defence and aerospace modernization goals, working alongside the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces to transition concepts into field-ready deployments. Flight trials of autonomous and remotely piloted aircraft require a ground facility for aircraft control, telemetry and video monitoring and recording, and surveillance of the surrounding airspace. The facility must also support coordination with the research team, air traffic services where available, and other aircraft as required. During flight autonomy and human factors trials, the operators themselves are also subjects of study. Every operator position must therefore be instrumented, and telemetry and video from multiple aircraft, together with operator actions and research logs, must be recorded using a common time base distributed throughout the vehicle network. This work currently relies on the NRC Flight Research Laboratory’s ground-control trailer, which was built for earlier programs. The trailer lacks sufficient seating for the crew required for multi-aircraft trials and has no provision for the masts, mast-head radios, radar and power demands of the current fleet. It also cannot provide the instrumented operator positions and synchronized data recording essential to these trials. The Mobile Command Centre (MCC) will become the primary ground facility, while the existing tr…

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