In today’s environment, security is everybody’s business. Whether you are a buyer or seller, the need for security products and services keeps increasing. Spending on information communication technology, including homeland security is in the billions of dollars worldwide. How does your company sell into the security marketplace? The answer is to be prepared.
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Minister Emerson Announces Appointment to Canadian Commercial Corporation Board of Directors

Mr. Dan Ross, Assistant Deputy Minister (Materiel) at the Department of National Defence, is appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Commercial Corporation.
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CCC celebrates its 60th anniversary

This year marks CCC’s 60th anniversary following its creation as a Crown Corporation of the Government of Canada in 1946, in light of Canada’s postwar reconstruction efforts in Europe. Since then, it has consistently delivered excellence in international contracting and procurement services in defence and developing country markets.

CCC has proudly served Canadian exporters and foreign government buyers by facilitating trade through different mechanisms, such as the Canada-U.S. Defense Production Sharing Arrangement (DPSA), and working alongside international trade partners. It has done so by helping Canadian exporters access markets abroad and by helping foreign buyers obtain goods from Canada.

Looking ahead, CCC will continue to deliver on its mandate as Canada’s international contracting agency through excellence in international contracting and procurement.

CADSI/NDIA
Canada – U.S. Defence and Security Industry Conference:
Collaborative Defence and Shared Security
October 30 to November 1, 2006 – Ottawa

CCC President John McBride will moderate the plenary session on New Business Opportunities in Canada-U.S. Defence Procurement. This session will address the importance of the Canada-U.S. defence relationship in improving North-American security, greater interoperability and a strong integrated defence industrial base with speakers from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of National Defence (DND), as well as from industry.

For more information, please visit CADSI.

Crown Corporation Governance Conference
November 15-17, 2006 – Ottawa

CCC Chair, Alan Curleigh will speak to Assessing your Board’s Performance: the Challenge of Effective Board Evaluation. This will be an opportunity to discuss how to deal sensitively and effectively with board evaluations, as well as examine how to develop a board assessment framework that incorporates key evaluation practices utilized by effective boards.