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NRC
NRC has taken the lead on QWIPs or Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors.
A government document says the QWIP project is:
“a key contributor to…collaborative work with the BMDO....
[with] significant implications for future exploitation to support
U.S.…missile defence applications.”
Space-based QWIPs will help BMD weapons distinguish between decoys and real missiles.
Canadian government scientists are among the world’s top QWIP experts. We pay for their labs, their salaries and their travel to international conferences. This week, the 4th biennial QWIP conference wrapped up in Sri Lanka. HC Liu, who heads NRC’s Institute for Microstructural Sciences, has cochaired every organising committee for these events, except QWIP 2004, which our government hosted and which Liu chaired. The US BMDO has always been directly involved in organising these events and there are always sessions on BMD applications.