Integrated Soldier System Project
The Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP) ,will provide the soldier with an integrated suite of equipment that includes weapons and electronic devices. The $310 million dollars project program would provide the canadian forces new equipments not only to allow troops to track each other as they move throughout the battlefield, but feed communications and targeting information into their helmets. The project is expected to unfold over the next 10 years. The Department of National Defence as confirmed about 17,000 integrated soldier systems would be bought by 2010. [1]
Background
The ISSP technology demonstrator initiated in 1995 but the project was cancelled, due to high systems cost and failure to meet some of the requirements. The Canadian Disruptive Pattern was a part of the ISSP technology demonstrator by Defence Research and Development Canada during the Clothe Soldier Project (CTS). [2]