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NovAtel
Between 2001 and 2003, NovAtel had three Advanced-Technology-Development contracts to export “Missile and Space Systems” to the U.S. government for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation” of “Ballistic Missile Defense.”
Novatel produces Global Positioning Systems. Its 2003 annual report said that its GPS technology is being used “in many military applications such as training, logistics and missile tracking.”
Controversy surrounds the Missile Defense Agency’s use
of targets containing GPS beacons because, as a Pentagon official
reluctantly admitted in 2001:
“real warheads in an attack would not carry such helpful
beacons.”
In 2001, physicist Nira Schwartz, blew the whistle on U.S. war industry giant, TRW, for faking “missile defense” tests. She was promptly fired.
That same year, Canadian billionaire Jerry Schwartz, lead his company ONEX to took control of CMC Electronics which, since 1998, had owned NovAtel. This Schwartz, no relation to Nira, soon became Paul Martin’s top Liberal party fundraiser.
In 2002, Industry Canada invested $17 million in CMC to assist its GPS program. Over the decades Industry Canada’s programs have given well over $100 million to CMC and its predecessor Cdn Marconi, the parent company of Novatel.
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